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cuke

/ˈkjuːk/

cuke noun: a cucumber.

Noun (1)

cuke (plural cukes)

  1. (informal) A cucumber.
    • I finally figured out what is mating on my cukes: squash bugs.2007 August 2, Anne Raver, “Nature Red in Tooth, Claw and Carapace”, in New York Times
    • By the time she was nine, Nina was traveling to distant markets on her own to sell her family's fresh tomatoes, beans, squash, zukes, cukes, peppers[…]2009, Dev Patnaik, Peter Mortensen, Wired to care: how companies prosper when they create widespread empathy

Noun (2)

cuke (plural cukes)

  1. (slang) A cucoloris.

Forms of cuke

pluralcukes

Origin of cuke

Clipping of cucumber.

Clipping of cucoloris.

Words that rhyme with cuke

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Questions about cuke

What does cuke mean?
Cuke means a cucumber.
What part of speech is cuke?
Cuke is a noun.
How do you pronounce cuke?
Cuke is pronounced /ˈkjuːk/.
What is the plural of cuke?
The plural of cuke is cukes.

Words near cuke in the dictionary

  1. Cuitlatecs
  2. cuiui
  3. Cujam
  4. Cujavia
  5. cuju
  6. cuke
  7. cukes
  8. Cukier
  9. Cukierman
  10. Cukiermann
  11. cukong

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