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nuts up

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

Meaning of nut up

Verb (1)

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

  1. (intransitive, slang) To show courage and hide one's apprehension.

Verb (2)

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

  1. (intransitive, slang) To lose one's temper, go nuts.
    • And what if some shit went wrong? Pimp was known to get crazy over minor shit. I didn't know if I could trust him to pull off a job like this without nutting up in the middle of the mix.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103
    Synonyms:
    nut out

Questions about nuts up

What is nuts up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Nuts up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nut up.

Words near nuts up in the dictionary

  1. nuts
  2. nuts and bolts
  3. nuts out
  4. nuts to
  5. nuts to butts
  6. nuts up
  7. nuts-to-butts
  8. nutsack
  9. nutsacks
  10. nutsedge
  11. nutsedges

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