Definition of Nuts

Adjective: nuts  núts

  1. 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
Noun: nut  nút
  1. A hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell
    - edible nut
     
  2. A large hard-shelled seed
     
  3. A small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
     
  4. Half the width of an em
    - en
     
  5. A whimsically eccentric person
    - crackpot, crank, nut case, fruitcake, screwball
     
  6. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
    "a car nut";
    - addict, freak, junkie, junky
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Informal term for a human head
    "use your nut";
    - bean, bonce [Brit], noodle, noggin, dome, nob, skull, noddle [Brit]
     
  9. [US] (informal) the amount of money necessary to set up or run some venture
Verb: nut (nutted,nutting)  nút
  1. Gather nuts

See also:
nutritives
nutsedge

Anagrams containing the word nuts

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