Definitions for stud

• Definition
• Anagrams (25)

stud stud

Spelling: [stuhd]

IPA: /stʌd/

Stud is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in stud (dstu).

Definitions for stud

noun

1. a boss, knob, nailhead, or other protuberance projecting from a surface or part, especially as an ornament.
2. any of various buttonlike, usually ornamental objects, mounted on a shank that is passed through an article of clothing to fasten it:
3. any of a number of slender, upright members of wood, steel, etc., forming the frame of a wall or partition and covered with plasterwork, siding, etc.
4. any of various projecting pins, lugs, or the like, on machines or other implements.
5. Automotive. any of a large number of small projecting lugs embedded in an automobile tire (studded tire) to improve traction on snowy or icy roads.
6. an earring consisting of a small, buttonlike ornament mounted on a metal post designed to pass through a pierced ear lobe.
7. Horology. the piece to which the fixed end of a hairspring is attached.
8. a studhorse or stallion.
9. an establishment, as a farm, in which horses are kept for breeding.
10. a number of horses, usually for racing or hunting, bred or kept by one owner.
11. a male animal, as a bull or ram, kept for breeding.
12. a herd of animals kept for breeding.
13. Slang. a man, especially one who is notably virile and sexually active.
14. Poker. stud poker.

Idioms

1. at / in stud, (of a male animal) offered for the purpose of breeding.

adjective

1. ornamented with rivets, nailheads, or other buttonlike, usually metallic objects:
2. of, associated with, or pertaining to a studhorse or studhorses.
3. retained for breeding purposes.

verb (used with object)

1. to set with or as if with studs, bosses, or the like:
2. (of things) to be scattered over the expanse or surface of:
3. to set or scatter (objects) at intervals over an expanse or surface:
4. to furnish with or support by studs.

Origin of stud

before 900; Middle English stude knob, post, Old English studu post; cognate with Middle High German stud, Old Norse stoth post

Examples for stud

He picked up a microphone, touched a stud, and turned a knob.

“John Cusack will forever be a stud,” says Melissa Middleton, “pinfluencer” and founder of JNSQ, an online lifestyle blog.

They ran headlines—not once, but twice—referring to NBA stud Jeremy Lin as a “chink.”

So after we shot there that weekend we out and went dancing at The stud.

Sutter touched a stud and the electric runabout coasted to a halt.

He creepin' went and watchin' stud, And he thought to hold her fast.

Come an' have a dhrink, me son,' sez Peg Barney, staggerin' where he stud.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is the stud you love to hate—at least onscreen.

"stud's undone, old chap," said his opponent as he paid his debt.

Then we shot at The stud, which is a bar in San Francisco, at the end of the fourth episode.