nut

Plural: nuts

Noun

• usually large hard-shelled seed
• Egyptian goddess of the sky
• a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
• half the width of an em
• a whimsically eccentric person
• someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
  • "a car nut"
• one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
• Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
• Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
• Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
• A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
• The head.
• A crazy person.
• An extreme enthusiast.
• An extravagantly fashionable young man.
• Senses related to male genitalia.
• The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
• Senses related to male genitalia.
• A testicle.
• Senses related to male genitalia.
• Semen, ejaculate, cum.
• Senses related to male genitalia.
• Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
• Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
• The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
• A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
• On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
• En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
• A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
• The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
• The tumbler of a gunlock.
• A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
• A small rounded cake or cookie.
• Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).

Verb

Verb Forms: nutted, nutting, nuts

• To gather nuts; to hit with the head or forehead.
• gather nuts
• To gather nuts.
• To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
• To orgasm; to ejaculate.
• To hit in the testicles.
• To defeat thoroughly.

Intj

• No.

Examples

• a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
• dough-nut
• ginger nut
• He had to ’NUT’ out the best move from his current rack, which was full of tricky letters.
• He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better.
• He was driving his car like a nut.
• I kicked him in the nuts.
• nut straight, nut flush, nut full house
• There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.

Synonyms

addict, ball, ballock, bollock, crackpot, crank, egg, en, freak, fruitcake, junkie, junky, nut case, orchis, screwball, testicle, testis, Glasgow kiss, Liverpool kiss, basket case, basket weaver, blow a nut, blow one's load, blow one's wad, bonce, breed, bust, bust a nut, butt, coconut, come, crack, crazy, crazyhead, cream, cum, dingbat, eccentric, ejaculate, explode, fruit and nut case, fruit cake, fruit loop, fruitloop, get off, go off, head case, jizz, juice, kook, loaf, loony, loony tune, lunatic, madcap, madhead, mental case, nads, noodle, nut, nut ball, nut job, nutbag, nutbar, nutburger, nutcase, nutjob, nutter, pop, psycho, psychoceramic, schizo, shoot a rope, shoot off, shoot one's load, shoot one's wad, skeet, space cadet, space case, space pilot, splooge, spoof, spooge, spray one's shorts, sprog, spunk, spurt, unconventional, wackadoo, wackadoodle, wacko, weirdo, whackjob, whacko, wingnut

Related Words

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