nut

Noun

nut (plural nuts)

1. (broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
   • There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
   1. (broadly, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
2. (hardware) 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 bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.1998, Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing, page 95
3. (slang) The head.
   • Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head.1891, James Main Dixon, Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, page 226
   • 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.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V

   Synonyms:

   coconut, bonce, noodle

4. (slang) A crazy person.
   • He was driving his car like a nut.
   • Which one of you nuts has got any guts?1975, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (motion picture), spoken by McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)

   Synonyms:

   nutjob, nut job, nutcase, nut case, nutbag, nutter, wingnut, basket case, basket weaver, crack

5. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
   • a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
6. (Ireland, UK, dated, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
   • ‘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 ….1914, "Saki", ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323
7. (archaic) The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
   • [...] The Tentigo, head or Nut of the Clitoris, covered by the Nymphes, as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...]1665, Dr. Chamberlain's Midwifes Practice, page 54
   • 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.1763, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
8. (plural, slang, vulgar) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
   • I kicked him in the nuts.

   Synonyms:

   ball, bollock, nads

9. (slang, uncountable, vulgar) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
   • 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."2005 July, “Breakdown”, in Spin, page 104
10. (countable, slang, vulgar) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
    • He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better.
    • […] feelin' her pussy grippin' his dick as her nut lubricated him […]2020, Dontavious Robinson, Gangster Mission Part One, Page Publishing, Inc, →ISBN
11. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
    • $8,000 a month? I had no idea my nut was that big.2025 August 6, “Got a Nut”, in South Park, season 27, episode 2, spoken by Mr. Mackey
12. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
    • My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial, published 2005, page 11

Verb

nut (third-person singular simple present nuts, present participle nutting, simple past and past participle nutted or (nonstandard) nut)

1. To gather nuts.
   • I will no more a-nutting go ; That journey caused all this woe.1575, John Stephen Farmer, editor, Five anonymous plays, Early English Dramatists, volume Fourth Series, London: William How for Richard Ihones, page 171
   • […] 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!"1847, Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress
2. (UK, slang, transitive) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
   • 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...1999, Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England
   • 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.2026 June 14, Tom English, “Why Haiti v Scotland was antidote to the ills of world football”, in BBC Sport

   Synonyms:

   butt, Glasgow kiss, Liverpool kiss, loaf

3. (mildly, slang, vulgar) To orgasm; to ejaculate.
   • I got a bitch that suck my dick 'til I nut1996, “Bust a Nut”, performed by Uncle Luke featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
   • 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.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 152

   Synonyms:

   blow a nut, bust a nut, blow one's load, blow one's wad, breed, bust, come, cream, cum, ejaculate

4. (slang) To hit in the testicles.
5. (slang) To defeat thoroughly.

Interjection

1. (Scotland, colloquial) No.
   • Did you like them boys? I goes.
     Nut. She shook her hair.
     Neither?
     Nut. Right townies.1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 26

Proper noun (1) capitalized: NUT

NUT

1. (UK, abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of National Union of Teachers.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Nut

Nut

1. (Egyptian) The goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.