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nutting up

nutting up is the present participle and gerund 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 nutting up

What is nutting up the present participle and gerund of?
Nutting up is the present participle and gerund of nut up.

Words near nutting up in the dictionary

  1. nutting
  2. Nutting Lake
  3. nutting out
  4. nutting truck
  5. nutting trucks
  6. nutting up
  7. nuttings
  8. nuttish
  9. Nutton
  10. Nuttons
  11. Nutts

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