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nut
  1. A hard-shelled seed.
  2. A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
  3. (slang) A crazy person.
  4. (slang) The head.
  5. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
  6. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
  7. (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
  8. (music) 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.
  9. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
  10. (dated, Britain, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man. [1910s-1920s]
  11. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
  12. (climbing) 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.)
  13. (attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type, especially: "nut flush" and "nut straight". Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
  14. The tumbler of a gunlock.
  15. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
  16. Synonyms:
  17. Examples:
    1. “Black walnuts come with a tough outer cover that must be removed to get at the nut itself.”
      “As a self-confessed car nut, I was in my element examining pictures of Formula 1 cars and drivers, rally cars, scale models, trucks, and bikes.”
      “This kid, I says, has got a good nut on his shoulders.”
nuthook
  1. A hook on a pole to pull down boughs for gathering nuts.
  2. (obsolete) A thief who steals by means of a hook.
  3. (obsolete) A bailiff who metaphorically hooks or seizes malefactors; a policeman; a constable.
  4. Synonyms:
nutter
  1. A person who gathers nuts.
  2. (informal) An eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person.
  3. A person who is obsessed with something.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The new patient at the psychiatric hospital was known to be a nutter, often exhibiting erratic behavior and delusions.”
      “The nutter down the street collects down feathers and crafts elaborate hats out of them.”
      “A businessman arrested for luring a 16-year-old schoolgirl into a sadomasochistic love sesh is a bit of a nutter a court heard.”
nuthead
  1. A silly or crazy person; kook.
  2. A stupid person; fool; idiot.
  3. Alternative form of nut-head
    1. Outer porition of a nut.
    2. A head made out of a nut.
nuts
nuttiness
  1. The quality or degree of having a nutty flavor or texture.
  2. The quality or degree of having a nutty aspect; craziness or zaniness.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The complete nuttiness of the situation finally overcame Nina and she burst out laughing.”
      “The cigar drives home the nuttiness of the liquor and picks up leatheriness in the bargain.”
      “To Web surfers, he came off as a quick-witted scribe who kept readers amused with tales of high-altitude nuttiness.”
nutburger
  1. A patty made from or containing nuts; a burger featuring such a patty.
  2. (derogatory) A person considered crazy or eccentric.
nutcake
  1. A cake made with nuts
  2. (informal) A crazy person
  3. Synonyms:
nutgrass
  1. A perennial sedge, Cyperus rotundus, that has small edible nutlike tubers
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “These authors suggested that the AChE inhibitors in nutgrass could possibly act as the plants' defense against herbivores.”
nutpick
  1. (US) A sharp tool used for digging the edible portion out of a nut.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The nutpick occurs with two different handles, one of which, Number 7, is a shortened version of Number 6 minus the bird, twining vine, and ivy leaves at the join.”
      “He paused and with a silver nutpick extracted the last meat from the walnut.”
nutarianism
  1. The practice of being a nutarian, eating mainly nuts.
nutling
  1. (rare) A small or juvenile nut; a nutlet.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Nutling seems to give extraordinarily good reports, for twice in the maths.”
nuttery
  1. An orchard where nuts are grown.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Yew hedges enclose a small nuttery, and there is an Edwardian conservatory, a grand bothy and a picnic lawn next to another pond.”
      “Franks was not relying on pseudoscientific nuttery about the lady-parts shutting down pregnancy in the case of rape.”
nutmeal
  1. Meal made by the crushing or grinding of nuts.
nutwood
  1. The wood of any nut-bearing tree.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In after years Noel Herriott often recalled that afternoon spent at nutwood.”
      “If that is the best you can suggest, I shall just suit myself and call her Patricia of nutwood.”
      “An hour afterward, in front of the post-office, the mail for nutwood was brought to the trap.”
nutarian
  1. One whose diet consists mainly of nuts.
nutmeat
  1. (US) The edible portion of a nut.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Before baking, decorate the top of each cookie with half a nutmeat and a sifting of sugar, if desired.”
      “Salmonella did not grow on high-Aw nutmeat halves, pieces or granules stored at 4 C for up to 48 hours.”
      “It is used for food after being processed while green for pickled walnuts or after full ripening for its nutmeat.”
nutbowl
  1. a bowl specially used for nuts
nutting
  1. (rare) An outing to gather nuts.
nutlet
  1. A small nut.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I found a tiny pecan nutlet on the forest floor while hiking.”
      “This will, I think, help to fertilize the pistillate or nutlet blossoms on many of the trees.”
      “The shape of the nutlet and the character of its coat are very varied.”
nutburgers
  1. plural of nutburger
nuttinesses
nutarians
  1. plural of nutarian
nutgrasses
nutcakes
  1. plural of nutcake
nutheads
  1. plural of nuthead
  2. Examples:
    1. “You called all of us nutheads. I can do that arithmetic as good as you can.”
      “Model experiments have been made with two pairs of propellers, differing only in the fact that in one, excrescences representing nutheads were left on the boss.”
nutmeals
  1. plural of nutmeal
nutmeats
  1. plural of nutmeat
nuttings
  1. plural of nutting
nutbowls
  1. plural of nutbowl
nuthooks
nutlings
  1. plural of nutling
nutpicks
  1. plural of nutpick
nutwoods
  1. plural of nutwood
nutteries
  1. plural of nuttery
nutlets
nutters
  1. plural of nutter
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After a bit of a boogie to Grooverider with the dance nutters we left for home at about 3am.”
      “California draws visionaries, seekers, nutters and pseudo-scientists, many with sci-fi dreams roaring in their ears.”
      “Those nutters in the square loved every minute of it and even cheered when the water cannon returned.”
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