Usually means: Global cooling from nuclear explosions.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word nuclear winter:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. nuclear winter: Merriam-Webster
  2. nuclear winter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nuclear winter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nuclear winter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nuclear winter: Vocabulary.com
  6. nuclear winter: Wordnik
  7. nuclear winter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nuclear winter: Wiktionary
  9. nuclear winter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. nuclear winter: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. nuclear winter: Dictionary.com
  12. Nuclear Winter, Nuclear winter (disambiguation), Nuclear winter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. nuclear winter: Rhymezone
  14. nuclear winter: FreeDictionary.org
  15. nuclear winter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. nuclear winter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuclear winter: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuclear winter: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See nuclear_winters as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nuclear winter)

noun:  A predicted drop in global temperature following a nuclear war due to dust in the upper atmosphere reducing sunlight reaching the ground.

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