Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Crazy or foolish.
- adjective Extremely enthusiastic.
- interjection Used to express contempt, disappointment, or refusal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection slang An expression of disapproval, defiance, or displeasure, as in: “Ah, nuts! My knife just broke.”
- slang Crazy; loony; insane; batty; -- used in a predicate position, ususually in phrases such as
to go nuts ,went nuts , are younuts ?
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
nut . - noun vulgar, slang
Testicles . - noun poker A hand that can be proven unbeatable even when the hand's holder does not know any of the hidden cards the other poker players involved in a hand hold or held.
- adjective colloquial
Insane ,mad . - adjective colloquial, figuratively
Crazy ,mad ; unusuallypleased or, alternatively,angered . - interjection Indicates
annoyance ,anger , ordisappointment . - interjection Signifies
rejection of a proposal or idea, as inforget it ,no way , ornothing doing . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
nut .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All afternoon she had been with the children, playing Oranges and lemons, A ring, a ring of roses, and Here we come gathering nuts in May, _nuts_ in May,
Life and Death of Harriett Frean May Sinclair 1904
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And a golf club to the nuts is the sincerest form of entertainment.
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When I said the word nuts, which is what Jesse Jackson actually did say that we knew at that time, I was not bleeped.
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In a fiercely argued critique of the proposed balanced-budget amendment, which he calls "nuts," Bartlett accuses Republican lawmakers of once again trying the "starve-the-beast" ploy that has repeatedly failed.
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Whenever a few of us label nuts were gathered together, we'd gripe about those plain vanilla labels.
Freep.com - RSS 2009
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One of the things that the drug manufacturers do that drives us nuts is advertise prescription drugs on television.
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What would really drive the left nuts is massive contributions to K-12 education in the form of scholarships to attend private schools.
Taxes vs. Philanthropy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One of the things that the drug manufacturers do that drives us nuts is advertise prescription drugs on television.
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Both my husband and son are train nuts, so we hopped off the freeway to see what the fuss was about.
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Reading up on these “Nordic” nuts is like cleaning out the septic tank.
South Dakota loses, adds “hate group” « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
brtom commented on the word nuts
It was nuts for the crowd, though maybe not for the king's friends HF 29
December 7, 2006
oroboros commented on the word nuts
Stun in reverse.
July 22, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word nuts
Interesting short article on how/when nuts came to mean crazy.
October 12, 2007
lea commented on the word nuts
"Kick me in the nuts." - The Dudesons.
March 1, 2009