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nutcrack

nutcrack verb: to crack nuts for food.

Verb

nutcrack (third-person singular simple present nutcracks, present participle nutcracking, simple past and past participle nutcracked)

  1. To crack nuts for food.
    • Marshall-Pescini and Whiten noticed that Baluku performed cracking actions in the air while watching the demonstrator nutcrack […]2012 Claudio Tennie, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello "Untrained Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Fail to Imitate Novel Actions" PLos ONE

Forms of nutcrack

third-person singular presentnutcracks
present participlenutcracking
past participlenutcracked
pastnutcracked

Origin of nutcrack

From nut + crack.

Phrases with nutcrack

Questions about nutcrack

What does nutcrack mean?
Nutcrack means to crack nuts for food.
What part of speech is nutcrack?
Nutcrack is a verb.
What is the past tense of nutcrack?
The past tense of nutcrack is nutcracked.

Words near nutcrack in the dictionary

  1. nutbutters
  2. nutcake
  3. nutcakes
  4. nutcase
  5. nutcases
  6. nutcrack
  7. Nutcrack Night
  8. nutcracker
  9. nutcracker doll
  10. nutcracker phenomenon
  11. nutcracker syndrome

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