Definizione monolingua

nut

nut (third-person singular simple present nuts, present participle nutting, simple past and past participle nutted)

1. (UK, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
   • 1999, Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England

     One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...

2. (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate (semen).

nut (plural nuts)

1. A hard-shelled seed.

   There are many sort of nuts - peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.

2. A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
   • 1998, Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing - Page 95[1]

     As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.

3. (slang) A crazy person.

   He was driving his car like a nut.

4. (slang) The head.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:

     Let the Cream get firmly in her nut the idea that Sir Roderick Glossop was not the butler, the whole butler and nothing but the butler, and disaster, as I saw it, loomed.

5. (vulgarity, slang, rarely used in the singular) A testicle.

   I was kicked in the nuts

6. (vulgarity, slang) Semen, ejaculate.
7. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
   • 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:

     My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This wont make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”

8. (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
9. (music) On string instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
10. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
11. An extreme enthusiast (See #3)

    a fashion nut

    a gun nut

    a sailing nut

12. (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
    • 2005, Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing page 88

      When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.

13. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) (poker, only in attributive use) Relating to the nuts, the best possible hand on a given board.

Definizione dizionario nut

	noce
	seed
	The fruit of the walnut tree

	dado
	that fits on a bolt

	nocciola
	The fruit of the hazel tree.

	pazzo
	slang: insane person

	testicolo
	Ghiandola maschile, dove vengono prodotti lo sperma e alcuni ormoni.
	The male sex gland that produces sperm and male hormones, found in some types of animals.

madrevite

	coglione
	slang: testicle

	minchione
	slang: testicle

	palla
	slang: testicle

frutto a guscio

matto

nocciolo

testa

Altri significati:

(Discuss <sup>(+)</sup> this sense) (poker, only in attributive use) Relating to the nuts, the best possible hand on a given board.

(slang) The head.

(US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.

(intransitive, slang) To ejaculate ( '''semen''' ).

(transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.

(music) On string instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.

A hard-shelled seed.

(vulgarity, slang) Semen, ejaculate.

(vulgarity, slang, rarely used in the singular) A testicle.

(typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.

(climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)

Device that can be screwed on a bolt.

(US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.

(slang) A crazy person.

A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.

slang: the head

An extreme enthusiast, such as a gun nut or car nut. (See #3)