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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.)
га́йка, гайка
  • (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.
башка́, коча́н, ре́па, ты́ква
  • (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.
зана́чка
  • (food, broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
оре́х, орех
  • (slang) A crazy person.
псих, сумасше́дший, чо́кнутый, ши́зик
  • (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
яйцо́

nuts adjective

  /nʌts/
  • (colloquial) Insane, mad.
чокнутый
  • (colloquial, figuratively) Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
бешеный
  • (colloquial) Very fond of (on) someone.
передвинутый
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