nuts
/nʌts/
nuts is the plural of nut.
nuts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nut.
Noun (1)
nuts pl (plural only)
- The testicles.
- An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.
- If the board is 237QA, all of spades, the nuts is 45 of spades.
- If the board is 4444J, the nuts is any hand with an ace.
Adjective
nuts (comparative more nuts, superlative most nuts)
- Insane, mad.
- After living on the island alone for five years, he eventually went nuts.
- Are you nuts?
- Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
- I just go nuts over her fantastic desserts.
- The referee made a bad call against the home team and the crowd went nuts.
- Very fond of (on) someone.
- He's been nuts on her since the day they met.
Interjection
- Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.
- Nuts! They didn't even listen to what I had to say.
- Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to, as nuts to.
- They want me to pay $5 for a banana? Nuts to that!
Meaning of nut
Noun
nut (plural nuts)
- 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.
- Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- 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
- 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
- A crazy person.
- He was driving his car like a nut.
- An extreme enthusiast.
- a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
Noun (2) capitalized: NUTS
NUTS (uncountable)
- initialism of Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques: (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics - an EU classification system of geographical administrative areas for statistical purposes).
Synonyms of nuts
Forms of nuts
| comparative | more nuts |
|---|---|
| superlative | most nuts |
Words formed from nuts
Phrases with nuts
- nuts up
- bat nuts
- bay nuts
- cap nuts
- cob nuts
- gum nuts
- lug nuts
- nuts out
- pea nuts
- soy nuts
- beer nuts
- corn nuts
131 more phrasesFewer phrases
- dead nuts
- deez nuts
- dome nuts
- goes nuts
- gone nuts
- jack nuts
- kola nuts
- love nuts
- numb nuts
- palm nuts
- Pará nuts
- pili nuts
- pine nuts
- rush nuts
- tree nuts
- well nuts
- went nuts
- wing nuts
- wire nuts
- acorn nuts
- areca nuts
- beech nuts
- betel nuts
- check nuts
- cream nuts
- djave nuts
- flare nuts
- going nuts
- hazel nuts
- ivory nuts
- Jesus nuts
- lotus nuts
- lucky nuts
- mixed nuts
- mummy nuts
- pilot nuts
- stone nuts
- tagua nuts
- taqua nuts
- tiger nuts
- tough nuts
- truck nuts
- vomic nuts
- vomit nuts
- Yowah nuts
- anchor nuts
- barrel nuts
- beetel nuts
- beetle nuts
- Brasil nuts
- brazil nuts
- cashew nuts
- castle nuts
- clinch nuts
- ginger nuts
- ginkgo nuts
- ground nuts
- grugru nuts
- kanary nuts
- Levant nuts
- monkey nuts
- mutt's nuts
- nickar nuts
- nicker nuts
- pepper nuts
- physic nuts
- pinyon nuts
- poison nuts
- sleeve nuts
- Bambara nuts
- becuiba nuts
- coquito nuts
- hickory nuts
- Madeira nuts
- Malabar nuts
- marking nuts
- purging nuts
- soup to nuts
- Barbados nuts
- clearing nuts
- coquilla nuts
- Illinois nuts
- Jesuits' nuts
- nuts to butts
- paradise nuts
- quandong nuts
- reefer's nuts
- vomiting nuts
- butterfly nuts
- macadamia nuts
- nuts and bolts
- off one's nuts
- pistachio nuts
- anacardium nuts
- Queensland nuts
- Seychelles nuts
- castellated nuts
- gingerbread nuts
- from soup to nuts
- midshipman's nuts
- drove someone nuts
- hard nuts to crack
- driven someone nuts
- drives someone nuts
- let one's nuts hang
- tough nuts to crack
- be on someone's nuts
- driving someone nuts
- harder nuts to crack
- I'm allergic to nuts
- is on someone's nuts
- lets one's nuts hang
- hardest nuts to crack
- tougher nuts to crack
- was on someone's nuts
- been on someone's nuts
- screws, nuts and bolts
- toughest nuts to crack
- being on someone's nuts
- difficult nuts to crack
- land of fruits and nuts
- letting one's nuts hang
- had the world by the nuts
- has the world by the nuts
- get down to nuts and bolts
- got down to nuts and bolts
- have the world by the nuts
- gets down to nuts and bolts
- having the world by the nuts
- gotten down to nuts and bolts
- getting down to nuts and bolts
Words that rhyme with nuts
Questions about nuts
- What does nuts mean?
- Nuts means the testicles.
- What is nuts the plural of?
- Nuts is the plural of nut.
- What part of speech is nuts?
- Nuts can be a noun, an adjective or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce nuts?
- Nuts is pronounced /nʌts/.
Words near nuts in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nuts (page history and authors); NUTS (page history and authors); nut (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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