(Scotland, Northumbria) A bend (e.g. in a coast) …the fleet, after exploring the harbours, had doubled the East Neuk, passed safely through St Andrews Bay, and entered the Firth of Tay. --Chronicles of Strathearn (1896) - Rev. John Hunter.
(Scotland, Northumbria) A corner; a nook. A fairy fiddler frae the neuk, [nook] - "Robert Burns", by William Allan Neilson (1917)
nuke
nuke
noun
(anatomy, obsolete) Alternative form of nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”)
(by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
(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”)
(nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
(rare) A microwave oven.
(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).
A nuclear power station.
A nuclear weapon.
A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
Alternative spelling of nuc (“nucleus colony of bees”)
verb
(Wikimedia Commons jargon) To completely delete all uploads of a user, usually due to copyright violations or vandalism.
(transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
(transitive, US, nautical, colloquial) To overanalyze or despair unduly over something.
(transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven.
(transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.
(transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
(transitive, chiefly US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.
(transitive, warez) To flag a release as bad for some reason or another (for instance, due to being a duplicate of an earlier release or containing malware).