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cuke

cuke

1 9.6
A long green vegetable eaten raw or pickled
  • noun
  • /kjuːk/
  • Informal
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  • Cukes, 25 cents.
  • cuke salad
  • cukes and tomatoes

Examples

  • Loose carrots, cherry tomatoes, pickling cukes.

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  • Beans, beets, cukes, tomatoes, zucchini, and lots of fresh greens from the garden!

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  • I grow and love the white cukes too.

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  • Hey, Paul, look at these cukes.

  • Fresh-picked cukes will remain on the counter.

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  • I made a lot of pickles with the last batch of cukes last month, and I will have pickles all winter long!

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  • I store my cukes in the fridge all the time, and they usually last at least a week, but they are not refrigerated at the market, supermarket, or farmers' market.

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  • Little Cukes—$3

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  • It also depends on how cold the cukes were kept at the store—the less cold, the less damage.

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  • In the summer, I love to eat fresh cukes in my salads.

Synonyms

cucumber
vscuke
88 1.0

A long green fruit with crisp watery flesh often eaten raw or pickled

is informal slang rather than the neutral standard term
gherkin
vscuke
5 3.1

A small cucumber pickled and eaten with food

is informal and refers to the general larger raw or pickled vegetable

How Big

cuke
  • Informal
1 9.6
gherkin
5 3.1

Surface Forms

cuke singular
cukes plural

Etymology

Cuke is an informal short word for cucumber, so it is like a friendly nickname for the long green vegetable. That's why if someone asks for a 'cuke' in a salad or a jar of pickles, they mean a cucumber.