Definition of "cuke"

I finally figured out what is mating on my cukes: squash bugs.

2007 August 2, Anne Raver, “Nature Red in Tooth, Claw and Carapace”, in New York Times‎

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