Définition de « nut » en Anglais

noun

1. (food, loosely) Any 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.

2. (hardware) 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.

3. (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]

4. (slang) A crazy person.

   • He was driving his car like a nut.

5. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.

   • a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut

6. (UK, Ireland, slang, dated) An extravagantly fashionable young man.

   • ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring ….

7. (anatomy) Senses related to male genitalia.

8. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.

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

10. (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.

11. (music, lutherie) 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.

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

13. (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.)

14. (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).

    • nut straight, nut flush, nut full house

15. (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.

16. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.

17. (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.

    • dough-nut
    • ginger nut

verb

1. (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.

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