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zuke

zuke noun: zucchini.

Noun

zuke (plural zukes)

  1. (US, colloquial) Zucchini.
    • But please use tender young squash. The zuke someone overlooked in the garden until it was the size of a rolling pin will be too bitter for this casserole.2005, Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
    • 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

Forms of zuke

pluralzukes

Origin of zuke

Shortening. Compare cuke.

Questions about zuke

What does zuke mean?
Zuke means zucchini.
What part of speech is zuke?
Zuke is a noun.
What is the plural of zuke?
The plural of zuke is zukes.

Words near zuke in the dictionary

  1. Zuism
  2. Zuist
  3. zuit suit
  4. zuit suits
  5. Zuk
  6. zuke
  7. Zuker
  8. Zukerberg
  9. Zukerman
  10. Zukermann
  11. zukes

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