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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. [informal] A whimsically eccentric person
   - crackpot [informal], crank, nutcase [informal], fruitcake [informal], screwball [informal]
    
5. [informal] Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
   "a car nut";
   - addict, freak, junkie [informal], junky [informal]
    
6. [vulgar] One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
   "she kicked him in the nuts and got away";
   - testis, testicle
    
7. [informal] The upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
   - head, caput [technical], bean [informal], bonce [Brit, informal], noodle [informal], noggin [informal], dome [informal], nob [informal], napper [Brit, informal], skull [informal]
    
8. [US, informal] The amount of money necessary to set up or run some venture
    
9. Half the width of an em
   - en

1. Gather nuts
    
2. [Brit, informal] Hit with the head

1. Egyptian goddess of the sky

Derived forms: nutting, nutted, nuts

Type of: block, collect, dag [Austral, NZ, informal], eccentric, eccentric person, Egyptian deity, enthusiast, external body part, flake [N. Amer, informal], garner, gather, geek [informal], gonad, human head, linear measure, linear unit, male reproductive gland, oddball [informal], partisan, partizan, pull together, seed, sex gland

Part of: animal, animate being, beast, body, brute, creature, em, family jewels [slang], fauna, lunch box [Brit, slang], male genital organ, male genitalia, male genitals, male reproductive system, nut and bolt, organic structure, pica, pica em

Encyclopedia: Nut