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nut noun

  /nʊt/ , /nʌt/ , [nɐt]
  • (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.
  • (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.)
 tuerca
  • (food, broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
 nuez, fruto seco
  • (slang) A crazy person.
 chalado, chiflado, cabra loca, como una cabra, loco
  • (musical instruments, 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.
 ceja
  • (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
 cojón, huevo

nuts adjective

  /nʌts/
  • (colloquial) Insane, mad.
 loco, chaveta, majareta, sonado, tarambana, tocado
pine nut
piñón
cashew nut
anacardo, castaña de cajú, almendra de cayú, cajuil, caujil, marañón
tiger nut
chufa
wing nut
palomilla
nut job
tarambana
kola nut
cola
brazil nut
nuez de Brasil, coquito del Brasil
macadamia nut
macadamia, nuez de arbusto, nuez de macadamia
betel nut
nuez de areca
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