zuke
nounEtymology Shortening. Compare cuke.
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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: