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Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.broadly
- There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
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Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.; Such a fruit that is indehiscent.broadly
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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.
- 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 bol
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The head.slang
- 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.
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A crazy person.slang
- He was driving his car like a nut.
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An extreme enthusiast.colloquial
- a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
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An extravagantly fashionable young man.IrelandUKdated
- ‘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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Senses related to male genitalia.; The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).archaic
- [...] The Tentigo, head or Nut of the Clitoris, covered by the Nymphes, as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...]
- 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.
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Senses related to male genitalia.; A testicle, often used in the plural form.pluralslangvulgar
- I kicked him in the nuts.
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Senses related to male genitalia.; Semen, ejaculate, cum.slanguncountablevulgar
- 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."
syn. nut