Meanings
nounnuke family (plural nuke families)
plural nuke families
- informaluncommonA nuclear family.
Boy grows up in het nuke family, just like something trapped in a TV series, with Dad, Mom & Sis. ("Hi, Sis.") Then The Devorce. The Father Remarries, Mother Doesn't. The boy & sis Go With Mom (didn't we all in the 50s?) after the divorce.
1982 December 4, Mitzel, “A Sissy's Revenge”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 9
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