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nuts

American  
[nuhts] / nʌts /

interjection

  1. Also nertz. (used to express disgust, defiance, disapproval, despair.)

adjective

  1. insane; crazy.

idioms

  1. be nuts about,

    1. to be extremely or excessively enthusiastic about; be fervent in one's admiration of.

      Both of them are nuts about chamber music.

    2. to be deeply in love with.

      He's nuts about his new girlfriend.
nuts British  
/ nʌts /

adjective

  1. a slang word for insane

  2. slang extremely fond (of) or enthusiastic (about)

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interjection

  1. slang an expression of disappointment, contempt, refusal, or defiance

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plural noun

  1. a slang word for testicles See testicle

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Etymology

Origin of nuts

First recorded in 1900–05; plural of nut

Example Sentences

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She interrupted a séance to distribute the nuts to her hungry youngest daughters.

From Literature

Conventional wisdom among Fed watchers in academia and the financial press is that this is nuts—which is strange.

From The Wall Street Journal

To make, blend together garlic, pine nuts, lemon juice, salt and basil in a food processor or blender.

From Salon

Soup to nuts: This phrase is a non-value-add in most cases as we can tell from the context of the statement something is being looked at or redone completely.

From The Wall Street Journal

The pixies must be going nuts with all that gold.

From Literature

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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