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nuts out

nuts out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nut out.

Meaning of nut out

Verb (1)

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

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, transitive) To find a solution (for something), especially in a group discussion; also, to work out the finer details (of something).
    • [A] chronic optimistic faith in pragmatic experiment to overcome deficiencies in the knowledge of these experts (rather than set up an expensive preparatory research program) was responsible for the difficulties that immediately occurred when the factory began to produce glass in July 1962. An...1965, William J[ames] Cameron, “From Adversity to Diversity”, in New Zealand (A Spectrum Book), Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, →OCLC, page 136

Verb (2)

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

  1. (US, intransitive, slang) To become crazy, especially with rage.
    • There was also the Black political pimp syndrome where a few middle-class and bourgeois negroes got big off the people’s struggles, and then nutted out completely, joining forces with our enemies, as agents, messengers, sophisticated stool pigeons, professional confusers.1981, Amiri Baraka, “Black America and the Afro-American Nation: The Urban Voice”, in Michael C. Jaye, Ann Chalmers Watts, editors, Literature & the American Urban Experience: Essays on the City and...
    Synonyms:
    nut up, craze, have a kangaroo loose in the top paddock, have a screw loose, have bats in one's belfry, have bats in the belfry, have squirrels in the attic, have toys in the attic, rave

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Nuts out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nut out.

Words near nuts out in the dictionary

  1. nutrose
  2. nutrush
  3. nutrushes
  4. nuts
  5. nuts and bolts
  6. nuts out
  7. nuts to
  8. nuts to butts
  9. nuts up
  10. nuts-to-butts
  11. nutsack

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