- balmy: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"
- (nut) gather nuts
- (nut) usually large hard-shelled seed
- (nut) Egyptian goddess of the sky
- (nut) a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- (nut) en: half the width of an em
- Nuts is a 1987 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt. The screenplay by Tom Topor, Darryl Ponicsan, and Alvin Sargent is based on Topor's 1979 play of the same title.
- Nuts is a weekly lad mag published in the United Kingdom. It was the first weekly lads magazine to be published in the UK and is sold every Tuesday (originally every Thursday). Nuts marketing campaign uses a slogan, "Women, don't expect any help on a Tuesday".
- A nut is a hard-shelled fruit of some plants having an indehiscent seed. While a wide variety of dried seeds and fruits are called nuts in English, only a certain number of them are considered by biologists to be true nuts. Nuts are an important source of nutrients for both humans and wildlife.
- Nuts is a 1979 play by Tom Topor. It is a suspense, psychological, and courtroom drama that explores sexual abuse issues, family and social power dynamics, and aspects of the criminal court system. It was staged off-off-Broadway in 1979 and transferred to Broadway the following year. ...
- NUTS, or Neil's Unix Talk Server is a talker base written in C programming language by Neil Robertson , and got the status as the best-known talker base by 1996, surpassing ew-too.
- In poker, the nut hand, or simply the dugan, is the strongest possible hand in a given situation. The second-nut hand or third-nut hand (and so on) may refer to the second and third best possible hands. ...
- Testicles; 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; Insane, mad; Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered; Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment; ...
- (NUT) National Union of Teachers.
- (Nut) The tensioning component of a compression fitting. As the threaded nut is tightened into the fitting detail, it pushes the ferrule forward into the tapered ferrule seat, causing it to make up on the tube. ...
- (Nut) a hard-walled, one-seeded fruit that does not split spontaneously (e.g., hazelnut)
- (nut) operating expenses to be recovered; “On Broadway, most shows need to operate at 60% of audience capacity to cover their nuts.”
- (The Nut) The sum total (in cash) of a performance, or group of performances. The nut (or kernel) is also sometimes used to refer to the basic operating expense of the joint (including the "patch"). To "make your nut" is to break even, anything beyond that is your profit (or tip).
- (Nut) Found at the end of the fingerboard near the tuners. Usually formed from bone, ivory, plastic, ebony, or graphite. The nut determines string spacing and string height by small grooves cut into its surface.
- (Nut) My trades today didn’t even cover my nut. – A nut is the total cost of commissions on your trades.
- (Nut) equivalent of two Heb. words: (I)'egoz (Cant., vi, 10), Arab. jauz, the walnut tree, universally cultivated in the East; (2) botnim (A. V., Gen., xliii, 11), probably the pistachio nut, Arab. butm. See Pistachio.
- (Nut) A chock. The first artificial chockstones were threaded hexagonal nuts picked up along railway tracks on the way to crags. A sling was put through the hole and a karabiner attached to the sling.
- (Nut) A metal wedge attached to a wire loop that is inserted into cracks for protection. See hexcentric.
- (Nut) The small grooved piece of bone that the strings sit in between the fretboard and the headstock.
- (Nut) the amount of money a casino needs to make a profit, the amount of money a player needs to accomplish his goals.