Pronunciations (3)
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/nʌt/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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[nɐt]
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- California
- New-Zealand
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/nʊt/
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- Northern-England
Noun
Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
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There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants. Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
Usage- broadly
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.
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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.
The head.
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Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head.
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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.
A crazy person.
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He was driving his car like a nut.
Which one of you nuts has got any guts?
An extreme enthusiast.
Usage- Colloquial
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a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
An extravagantly fashionable young man.
Usage- Ireland
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- Dated
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‘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 ….
Senses related to male genitalia. The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
Usage- Archaic
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[...] The Tentigo, head or Nut of the Clitoris, covered by the Nymphes, as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...]
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GLANS, in anatomy, the anterior extremity of the penis, called by other different names, as the head of the penis, the nut of the penis, and the balanus of the penis.
In persons troubled with tight foreskins, the matter from the urethra becomes collected between the foreskin and the nut of the penis.
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In this work the great Italian anatomist described a linen sheath which he claimed to have invented. Made to fit the glans, or nut of the penis, it was worn for protection against venereal disease.
Senses related to male genitalia. A testicle, often used in the plural form.
Usage- plural
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- Vulgar
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I kicked him in the nuts.
Senses related to male genitalia. Semen, ejaculate, cum.
Usage- Slang
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- Vulgar
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As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to "make nut come out your nose."
Senses related to male genitalia. Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
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He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better.
[…] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […]
Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
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$8,000 a month? I had no idea my nut was that big.
The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
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My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
Usage- US usage
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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.
Usage- Slang
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.)
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When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.
The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
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nut straight, nut flush, nut full house
I had the nut flush, but I lost to a full house.
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.
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dough-nut
ginger nut
Verb
To gather nuts.
Usage- in the form "nutting"
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I will no more a-nutting go ; That journey caused all this woe.
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[…] the huge country fellow […] leapt forth from the underwood, exclaiming "That is not allowed, gentlemen! That is not allowed! Nobody is allowed to nut here; I must take your names to Sir John!"
We are going a-nutting.
To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
Usage- UK usage
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One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...
The minutes ticked by - nine, eight, seven. The screens behind both goals flashed up images of Scotland fans and their 1000-yard stares. Six minutes to play and Frantzdy Pierrot rises above Grant Hanley and nuts one just wide.
To orgasm; to ejaculate.
Usage- mildly
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- Vulgar
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I got a bitch that suck my dick 'til I nut
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Isis rode my mug like she was on a ten-inch dick, and as soon as she nutted I tossed her ass off a me and flipped her on her back, then fucked the shit outta her cause it was payback time.
To hit in the testicles.
Usage- Slang
To defeat thoroughly.
Usage- Slang
Interjection
No.
Usage- Scotland
- Colloquial
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Did you like them boys? I goes. Nut. She shook her hair. Neither? Nut. Right townies.
Noun
usually large hard-shelled seed
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a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
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half the width of an em
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a whimsically eccentric person
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someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
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a golf addict
a car nut
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a bodybuilding freak
a news junkie
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
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she kicked him in the balls and got away
Verb
gather nuts
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