nut

Less common meanings

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   headnounslangcountable

   The head, in informal or slang usage.

   Ducking into the low attic, he banged his nut on a beam and saw stars for a moment.

   Use your nut and figure it out yourself.

   Similarhead, noggin, noodle

   Note

   It names the head both as the part you bump and as the place ideas live, and it has been slang since the nineteenth century. James Main Dixon's Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases already explains off one's nut as "crazy; mad." P. G. Wodehouse writes of getting an idea "firmly in her nut." Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

   • The head sense was established as slang in the nineteenth century. scribd.com
   • Wodehouse uses the exact phrase "firmly in her nut" about an idea. en.wiktionary.org
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   come (sex)verbslangmildly vulgarintransitive

   To reach orgasm, especially to ejaculate.

   He warned her he was about to nut.

   He nutted within a minute and felt embarrassed.

   Similarcome, cum, ejaculate, cream, jizz

   Note

   The verb takes no object, and it is rated only mildly vulgar. It appears in Uncle Luke's song "Bust a Nut" (1996). It is not limited to men: Noire's Thug-A-Licious (2006) uses it of a woman, "as soon as she nutted." The past tense is nutted. Source

   Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 3 facts

   • The verb appears in Uncle Luke's song "Bust a Nut" (1996). en.wiktionary.org
   • Noire wrote Thug-A-Licious, published in 2006. penguinrandomhouse.com
   • Thug-A-Licious uses the verb of a woman, with the exact words "as soon as she nutted." en.wiktionary.org
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   nounslangvulgarcountable

   In vulgar slang, an orgasm or ejaculation, or the semen released.

   He described it as the best nut of his life.

   He joked that his perfect lazy Sunday meant sleeping late, eating cold pizza, and busting a nut before lunch.

   Note

   Meaning an orgasm, nut counts: a nut is one event, so it takes an article and an adjective, as in "a good nut." Meaning semen, it is uncountable. In the phrases bust a nut and blow a nut it is the object of the verb, and both phrases mean the same as the bare verb.

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    monthly costsnounslangUScountable

    In US business slang, the sum of money needed to start a venture or keep it running each month; the basic costs that must be covered.

    The bar's nut ran to thousands of dollars every month.

    He took extra bookings just to meet the monthly nut.

    Similaroverhead, costs, expenses

    Note

    One of two American slang money senses, this one about running costs: what must be paid every month just to stay open. It is talked about by size. Mr. Mackey in South Park (2025) says "I had no idea my nut was that big." It also covers the money needed before a venture can open at all. Source

    Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 4 facts

    • Nut can mean the monthly expense of keeping a venture running. en.wiktionary.org
    • Mr. Mackey says the quoted words in South Park. southpark.cc.com
    • The episode containing the quotation originally aired in 2025. southpark.cc.com
    • Nut also covers the money needed to establish a venture. en.wiktionary.org
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    thrashverbslangtransitive

    To defeat someone thoroughly and decisively.

    The champions nutted every challenger in the tournament.

    If we play like that, they'll nut us again.

    Similarthrash, crush, trounce, hammer

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    verbslangtransitive

    To strike a person in the testicles, usually with a hand, foot, or object.

    During the pillow fight his little brother happened to nut him with a knee, and he doubled over groaning.

    Swinging his plastic bat wildly, the toddler nutted his father, who sank to his knees with both hands over his crotch.

    Note

    The target is built into the verb, taken from the testicle noun, so to nut someone needs no "in the." It is slang, and it shares its spelling with the headbutt verb. Only context tells the two blows apart, so make the target clear when it matters. Source

    Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 2 facts

    • Nut is attested as a slang verb meaning to hit in the testicles. en.wiktionary.org
    • The same spelling also represents a verb meaning to headbutt. en.wiktionary.org
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    best handnouncountablebefore a noun

    In poker, the best possible hand of a particular type.

    Sitting on the nut flush, he raised only a little so the other players would stay in the hand.

    With the nut straight in her hand, she checked quietly and waited for her opponents to bet into her.

    Note

    Poker uses it mostly before another noun: the nut straight, the nut flush, the nut full house, each the best hand of its kind. The plural the nuts names the best possible hand available. That is why a nut flush can still lose to a stronger kind of hand, while the nuts cannot be beaten as the board stands. Source

    Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 2 facts

    • A nut flush can lose to a stronger category of hand, such as a full house. en.wikipedia.org
    • The nuts cannot be beaten on the current board, but later cards can allow another hand to overtake them. pokerstars.com
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    climbing gearnouncountable

    A shaped metal piece on a wire loop, wedged into a crack in the rock face to protect a climb.

    He wedged a nut into the crack and clipped his rope to it.

    The leader placed several nuts along the pitch to protect the climb.

    Similarchock

    Note

    Climbing borrowed the word along with the hardware: the first nuts jammed into cracks were machine nuts, the threaded fasteners. The verb that goes with it is place, and climbers speak of placing nuts. Tony Lourens's Guide to Climbing (2005) gives the rule behind a good placement: look for a constriction in the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged. Source

    Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 3 facts

    • Climbing nuts originated as ordinary threaded machine nuts, from which they inherited their name. summitjournal.com
    • Tony Lourens wrote Guide to Climbing. search.worldcat.org
    • Lourens advises looking for constrictions behind which a nut can be wedged. en.wiktionary.org
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    hit with headverbslangUKtransitive

    To strike someone deliberately with the head.

    The bouncer was furious after a customer nutted him at closing time.

    He swore he'd nut the next man to mock his accent.

    Similarbutt

    Note

    British slang built on the "head" noun: to nut someone is to strike them with your own. It is transitive and needs an object, as in "nutted me square between the eyes" in Nik Cohn's Yes We Have No (1999). The same blow has regional nicknames, a Glasgow kiss and a Liverpool kiss, and a slang verb, loaf. Source

    Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 4 facts

    • The quoted wording appears under Nik Cohn's Yes We Have No in Wiktionary. en.wiktionary.org
    • A Glasgow kiss is a headbutt. en.wiktionary.org
    • A Liverpool kiss is a headbutt. en.wiktionary.org
    • Loaf is a slang verb meaning to headbutt. en.wiktionary.org
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    gatherverbintransitive

    To gather nuts, especially from the ground or from trees.

    My grandfather took us nutting along the creek each October, and we came home with our pockets full of hickory nuts.

    On cool October afternoons the whole family went nutting along the creek, filling paper sacks with fallen black walnuts.

    Note

    Mostly met as nutting, especially in go a-nutting, where the phrase turns the gathering into an outing. That phrase runs from a play first printed in 1662 to Edwin Way Teale's A Walk Through the Year (1978). The plain verb occurs too: Howitt's Journal (1847) has a countryman shouting "Nobody is allowed to nut here." Source

    Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 7 facts

    • Here a- means being engaged in an activity; it does not itself mean an outing. en.wiktionary.org
    • The line occurs in Grim the Collier of Croydon, first published in 1662. en.wikipedia.org
    • The early line contains a-nutting go. gutenberg.org
    • Edwin Way Teale wrote A Walk Through the Year, published in 1978. nps.gov
    • Teale's book uses the phrase going a-nutting. en.wiktionary.org
    • In 'is allowed to nut', nut is a nonfinite infinitive; is is the finite verb. en.wikipedia.org
    • Howitt's Journal contains the quoted wording in 1847. en.wiktionary.org
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    nointerjectiondialectalScotland

    Used to express refusal or denial; an informal way of saying no.

    Nut, there's no way I'm lending him the car again.

    When they asked if he'd help, he just said, "Nut."

    Similarno

    Oppositeyes

    Note

    A Scottish spoken no that grew out of not, with no connection to the shell-and-kernel nut. Alan Warner's Morvern Callar (1995) uses it as a whole answer in dialogue: "Neither? Nut." That is where it belongs, in speech and particularly in Scottish speech, not in formal writing. Source

    Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 5 facts

    • Nut is a Scottish colloquial expression meaning no. en.wiktionary.org
    • This expression is a variant of not, with a separate etymology from the fruit noun. en.wiktionary.org
    • Alan Warner wrote Morvern Callar, first published in 1995. files.libcom.org
    • 1995 is the novel's original publication year, rather than a reprint year. openlibrary.org
    • The novel contains this dialogue: Morvern asks Neither? and Lanna answers Nut. files.libcom.org
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    nounarchaic

    The glans: the rounded structure at the tip of the penis or clitoris.

    In persons troubled with tight foreskins, the matter from the urethra becomes collected between the foreskin and the nut of the penis.

    1864, Edward Cox, Cox's Companion to the Sea Medicine Chest

    GLANS, in anatomy, the anterior extremity of the penis, called by other different names, as the head of the penis, the nut of the penis, and the balanus of the penis.

    1763, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

    Note

    An anatomical word that has dropped out of use. The 1763 edition of A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences lists the nut of the penis alongside the head of the penis and the balanus. Dr. Chamberlain's Midwifes Practice (1665) applies it to the clitoris as well. In Peter Fryer's The Birth Controllers (1965) it serves only as a plainer alternative to glans, the term to use now. Source

    Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 6 facts

    • The original edition appeared in 1754–1755; the second edition appeared in 1763–1764. wellcomecollection.org
    • The dictionary's glans entry lists nut of the penis alongside head of the penis and balanus of the penis. en.wiktionary.org
    • Dr. Chamberlain's Midwifes Practice was published in 1665. wellcomecollection.org
    • Dr. Chamberlain's Midwifes Practice applies nut to the clitoris. en.wiktionary.org
    • Peter Fryer's The Birth Controllers was first published in 1965. marxists.org
    • Fryer uses nut of the penis as an explanatory equivalent of glans. en.wiktionary.org
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    fancy dressernoundatedIrelandUKcountable

    An extravagantly fashionable young man given to showy, stylish dress.

    The young nut strolled down the promenade in a peacock-blue suit.

    Society columns mocked the nuts parading their tailored finery at the races.

    Similardandy, fop

    Note

    A dated piece of British and Irish slang for a young dandy. Saki's "The Dreamer" in Beasts and Superbeasts (1914) capitalizes it, "what they call a Nut," and that "what they call" marks it as fashionable jargon even then. A modern reader is far more likely to hear the "crazy person" meaning, so the word needs context to work today. Source

    Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 3 facts

    • Nut is dated British and Irish slang for an extravagantly fashionable young man. en.wiktionary.org
    • Saki wrote Beasts and Super-Beasts, first published in 1914; its title-page transcription also gives 1914. en.wikipedia.org
    • The Dreamer contains the quoted wording with a capital N; the fictional speaker is Adela Chemping. gutenberg.org
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    nounarchaic

    A cookie or small cake formed into a rounded shape.
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    nounslangUS

    A reserve of money held by an extremely wealthy investor, large enough to maintain a high standard of living even if all other funds are lost.
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    nounslang

    Among printers, the en: a unit of measurement equal to half the height of the type currently in use.
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    noun

    The tumbler of a gunlock: the rotating part linked to the hammer, notched to hold it at half and full cock.
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    noun

    A projection on each side of an anchor's shank that holds the stock in place.
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    noun

    A nose ring traditionally worn by women in India; another spelling of nuth.