Usually means: Weapons using nuclear reactions, destructive.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. nukes: Merriam-Webster
  2. nukes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nukes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Nuke's, Nukes, nukes: Wordnik
  5. nukes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. nukes: Wiktionary
  7. nukes: Dictionary.com
  8. nukes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Nukes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. nukes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nukes: Hacking Lexicon
  2. nukes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nukes: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nukes: ESL Slang page
  2. nukes: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nuke as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nuke)

noun:  A nuclear weapon.
noun:  (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
noun:  A nuclear power station.
noun:  (nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
noun:  A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
noun:  (warez) A cautionary flag placed on a release to label it as "bad" for some reason or another (e.g., being a dupe of a previous release or containing malware).
noun:  (rare) A microwave oven.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.
verb:  (transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
verb:  (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven.
verb:  (transitive, US, nautical, colloquial) To overanalyze or despair unduly over something.
noun:  Alternative spelling of nuc (“nucleus colony of bees”) [(beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.]
noun:  (anatomy, obsolete) Alternative form of nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”) [(anatomy, obsolete) The spinal cord.]
noun:  (chiefly Northern England, archaic) Alternative form of nook (“a corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land”) [A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.]
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