Usually means: Hardware fastener with threaded hole.
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General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. nut: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nut: Merriam-Webster
  3. NUT, Nut, nut: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nut: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nut: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Nut, nut: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nut, nut, nut: Wordnik
  8. nut: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Nut, Nut, Nut: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. NUT, Nut, nut: Wiktionary
  11. nut: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. nut: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. nut: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. n.u.t, nut: Dictionary.com
  15. nut: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. nut: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. NUT (studio), Nut (climbing), Nut (food), Nut (fruit), Nut (goddess), Nut (hardware), Nut (instrumental), Nut (string instrument), Nut, The Nut: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Nut: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. nut: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. nut: Rhymezone
  21. nut, nut (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. nut: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. nut: MyWord.info
  24. NUT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  25. Nut: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  26. nut: FreeDictionary.org
  27. nut: Mnemonic Dictionary
  28. Nut: The Word Detective
  29. nut: TheFreeDictionary.com
  30. nut: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Banjo Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nut (disambiguation), nut: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Nut (disambiguation), nut: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  2. NUT: Acronym Finder
  3. NUT: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. nut: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. nut, nut, nut, nut, nut, nut, nut, nut, nut, nut, nut: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. nut: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. nut: ESL Slang page
  5. the nut: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Nut: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  3. Nut: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See nuting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
noun:  (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
noun:  (slang) A crazy person.
noun:  (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, slang, dated) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
noun:  (anatomy) Senses related to male genitalia.
noun:  (archaic) The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris).
noun:  (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
noun:  (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
noun:  (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
noun:  (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
noun:  (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
noun:  (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.)
noun:  (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
noun:  (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
noun:  (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
noun:  (archaic) A small rounded cake or cookie.
verb:  (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
verb:  (UK, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
verb:  (slang, mildly vulgar) To orgasm; to ejaculate.
verb:  (slang) To hit in the testicles.
verb:  (slang) To defeat thoroughly.
noun:  (Egyptian mythology) The goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.
noun:  Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”) [A nose ring worn by Indian women.]
noun:  (UK, historical) Initialism of National Union of Teachers.

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