"nuts" in the noun sense
1. nut
usually large hard-shelled seed
2. Nut
Egyptian goddess of the sky
3. nut
a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
4. en, nut
half the width of an em
5. crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball
a whimsically eccentric person
6. addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky
someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
"a golf addict"
"a car nut"
"a bodybuilding freak"
"a news junkie"
7. testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
"she kicked him in the balls and got away"
"nuts" in the verb sense
1. nut
gather nuts
"nuts" in the adjective sense
1. balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
"it used to drive my husband balmy"
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