Meaning of nut | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of National Union of Teachers.
   UK, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
2. Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
   broadly
3. The goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.
   Egyptian
4. Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
   broadly
5. 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.
6. The head.
   slang
7. A crazy person.
   slang
8. An extreme enthusiast.
   colloquial
9. An extravagantly fashionable young man.
   Ireland, UK, dated, slang
10. Senses related to male genitalia.
    archaic
11. The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
    archaic
12. A testicle, often used in the plural form.
    plural, slang, vulgar
13. Semen, ejaculate, cum.
    slang, uncountable, vulgar
14. Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
    countable, slang, vulgar
15. Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
    US, slang
16. The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
    US, slang
17. A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
    US, slang
18. 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.
19. En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
    slang
20. 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.)
21. The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
    attributive
22. The tumbler of a gunlock.
23. A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
24. A small rounded cake or cookie.

Equivalents

Examples

“There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He was driving his car like a nut.”

“Which one of you nuts has got any guts?”

“a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut”

“‘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 ….”

“[...] 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.”

“In persons troubled with tight foreskins, the matter from the urethra becomes collected between the foreskin and the nut of the penis.”

“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.”

“I kicked him in the nuts.”

“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."”

“He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better.”

“[…] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […]”

“$8,000 a month? I had no idea my nut was that big.”

“My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.””

“When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.”

“nut straight, nut flush, nut full house”

“dough-nut”

“ginger nut”

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