Nut

/nʌt/ · noun

Meaning

(food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants..

Definitions by Sense

1. (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
2. (hardware) 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.
3. (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
4. (slang) A crazy person.
5. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
6. (UK, Ireland, slang, dated) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
7. (anatomy) Senses related to male genitalia.
8. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.

Example Sentences

There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.

As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.

Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head.

Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.

He was driving his car like a nut.

Which one of you nuts has got any guts?

a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut

‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring ….

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• nuts
• nutting
• nutted
• nut

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