Definitions for NUT

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NUT nut

Spelling: [nuht]

IPA: /nʌt/

Nut is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in NUT (ntu).

Definitions for NUT

noun

1. a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
2. the kernel itself.
3. Botany. a hard, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit, as the chestnut or the acorn.
4. any of various devices or ornaments resembling a nut.
5. a block, usually of metal and generally square or hexagonal, perforated with a threaded hole so that it can be screwed down on a bolt to hold together objects through which the bolt passes.
6. Slang. the head.
7. Slang. a person who is very enthusiastic about something; buff; enthusiast; devotee: an extremely concerned or zealous person:
8. Slang. a foolish, silly, or eccentric person. an insane person; psychotic.
9. Slang: Vulgar. a testis.
10. Informal. the operating expenses, usually figured weekly, of a theatrical production or other commercial enterprise; a break-even point. the total cost of producing a theatrical production or of forming and opening any new business venture.
11. Music. the ledge, as of ebony, at the upper end of the fingerboard, over which the strings pass. the movable piece at the lower end of the bow, by means of which the hairs may be slackened or tightened.
12. Printing. en (def 2).
13. the goddess of the sky, sometimes shown as a cow bearing Ra on her back and the stars on her underside.

Idioms

1. from soup to nuts. soup (def 7).
2. hard nut to crack, a problem difficult to solve; a formidable undertaking. a person difficult to know, understand, or convince. Also, tough nut to crack.
3. off one's nut, Slang. Sometimes Offensive. foolish, silly, or insane. confused; unreasonable. mistaken or wrong:

verb (used without object)

1. to seek for or gather nuts:

Origin of NUT

before 900; 1900-05 for def 8b; Middle English nute, Old English hnutu; cognate with Dutch noot, German Nuss, Old Norse hnot; akin to Latin nux

Examples for NUT

It represents a sort of nut, itself too bulky for a railway truck.

Bob McDonnell went from GOP family-values godsend to blaming everything on his ‘nut bag’ wife.

You miserable little beast—with cats everywhere, and not a nut for miles!

Look for:According to Begun, options made mostly from gluten-free whole grains and nut flour reign supreme.

"Smash him, Sam—smash in his nut for him," piped the smallest Micky cheerfully.

His family members came to nickname him “The nut” as a child because, they say, he was “selectively crazy.”

During the first 32 minutes of Left Behind, the message is this: Christians are nut jobs.

“She's a nut, and her girlfriend is the devil,” Cogswell notes of her chief tormentor.

You cracked the nut with me; it doesn't become you to sneer at it now!

He'll be out for de goods; it's a gal owns him, an' dere'll be nut'in' doin'.