zuke

Zucchini.

Noun

  1. 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...
    • 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...

Origin

Shortening. Compare cuke.

Forms

zukes