antinuke

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ nuke

Adjective

antinuke (comparative more antinuke, superlative most antinuke)

  1. Opposed to nuclear weapons.
    • 1984 April 21, Maida Tilchen, “New Song, New Feminism, New Gay Awareness”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
      "Dig a Hole in the Ground or How to Prosper During the Coming Nuclear War" is one of the most effective anti-nuke sonngs that I have heard in the '80s.
  2. Opposed to nuclear power.

Noun

antinuke (plural antinukes)

  1. (informal) One who opposes nuclear weapons.
    • 1996, Fred D. White, Communicating technology: dynamic processes and models for writers:
      But when the antinukes quote this study, they do not tell anybody that it's been discredited.
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