nutnoun
uk/nʌt/us/nʌt/nut noun (FOOD)
B2 [ C ] the dry fruit of particular trees that grows in a hard shell and can often be eaten:
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- He cracked (open) the nuts with his hands.
- "I'm allergic to nuts." "So is my brother."
- Squirrels store (up) nuts for the winter.
- Vegans get all the protein they need from nuts, seeds, beans and cereals.
- These nuts are addictive - I can't stop eating them.
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Fruits & seeds & their parts
- acorn
- berry
- chaff
- coffee bean
- endosperm
- fruiterer
- grain
- kernel
- mielie
- pine cone
- pine nut
- pit
- pith
- seeded
- seeded
- sesame seed
- stalk
- thistledown
- windfall
- zest
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nut noun (METAL OBJECT)
[ C ] a small piece of metal with a hole in it through which you put a bolt:
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Nuts, bolts & screws
- bolt
- nail
- rivet
- screw
- thread
- wing nut
nut noun (PERSON)
[ C ] informal or offensive a person who behaves in a very silly, stupid, or strange way or an offensive term for a person who is mentally ill:
[ C ] informal someone who is extremely enthusiastic about a particular activity or thing:
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Of unsound mind
- around the bend idiom
- bat
- batshit
- battle-scarred
- beside
- crackers
- disturbed
- fruitcake
- gaga
- loon
- lose
- mad
- maniac
- nutcase
- off your trolley idiom
- psychopath
- schizo
- screwy
- trolley
- unhinged
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nut noun (HEAD)
[ C ] UK slang a person's head:
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The head
- basilar
- brachiocephalic
- capitis
- cephalic
- coronal
- crown
- head
- noddle
- noggin
- noodle
- occipital
- occipitalis
- scalene
- scalenes
- scalenus
- scalp
- skull
- sternocleidomastoid
- suboccipital
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nut noun (MONEY)
[ U ] US informal the amount of money necessary to operate a business or cover your costs:
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Amounts of money
- ante
- appropriation
- balance
- bank
- blood money
- bounty
- buck
- budget
- capital
- circumstance
- float
- have/get your snout in the trough idiom
- living wage
- money supply
- payout
- pool
- slush fund
- spending money
- sub
- trough
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Idiom(s)
nutverb [ T ]
uk/nʌt/us/nʌt/UK informalto hit someone or something with your head:
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
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