Meanings
cuke1
nouncuke (plural cukes)
plural cukes
- informalA 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 Times1 more example
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
cuke2
Synonyms & antonyms
nouncylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
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Rhymes with cuke
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APA
cuke. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuke
MLA
“cuke.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuke. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cuke,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuke.
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