Definition of Nuts
Adjective: nuts núts
- Informal or slang term meaning insane, strange, eccentric or stupid
"it used to drive my husband nuts";
- balmy [archaic], barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy [N. Amer], cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky, daffy, dippy, nutsy [N. Amer], potty [Brit], daft as a brush [Brit], round the twist [Brit], wacko, cuckoo
- A hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell
- edible nut
- A large hard-shelled seed
- A small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- Half the width of an em
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- A whimsically eccentric person
- crackpot, crank, nut case, fruitcake, screwball
- Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
"a car nut";
- addict, freak, junkie, junky
- One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
"she kicked him in the nuts and got away";
- testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, egg
- Informal term for a human head
"use your nut";
- bean, bonce [Brit], noodle, noggin, dome, nob, skull, noddle [Brit]
- [US] (informal) the amount of money necessary to set up or run some venture
- Gather nuts
See also:
nutritives
nutsedge
Anagrams containing the word nuts