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NUT
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
1
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Big
too short
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Super Big
too short
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NUT is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).
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noun
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broadlyAny of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
- broadlySuch a fruit that is indehiscent.
- A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- slangThe head.
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slangA crazy person.
- He was driving his car like a nut.
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colloquialAn extreme enthusiast.
- a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
- IrelandUKdatedslangAn extravagantly fashionable young man.
- archaicThe glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
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pluralslangvulgarA testicle, often used in the plural form.
- I kicked him in the nuts.
- slanguncountablevulgarSemen, ejaculate, cum.
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countableslangvulgarOrgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better.
- USslangMonthly expense to keep a venture running.
- USslangThe amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- USslangA stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- On stringed 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.
- slangEn, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- 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.)
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attributiveThe best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- nut straight, nut flush, nut full house
- I had the nut flush, but I lost to a full house.
- The tumbler of a gunlock.
- A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
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A small rounded cake or cookie.
- dough-nut
- ginger nut
- alternativeAlternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
verb
- To gather nuts.
- UKslangtransitiveTo hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
- mildlyslangvulgarTo orgasm; to ejaculate.
- slangTo hit in the testicles.
- slangTo defeat thoroughly.
interjection
- ScotlandcolloquialNo.