Definition of nuts

"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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Quotations for nuts

It is like nuts to an ape. [ Proverb ]

The noise is greater than the nuts. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You have not lived all your time upon nuts. [ Proverb ]

She goes as if she cracked nuts with her tail. [ Proverb ]

To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Children cry for nuts and apples, and old men for gold and silver. [ Proverb ]

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

nuts in Scrabble®

The word nuts is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters nuts:

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nuts in Words With Friends™

The word nuts is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters nuts:

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Word Growth involving nuts

Shorter words in nuts

nu nut

Longer words containing nuts

beechnuts

bladdernuts

breadnuts

butternuts

chestnuts

cobnuts

coconuts

donuts

doughnuts

groundnuts

hazelnuts

locknuts

nutsedge nutsedges

nutseed nutseeds

nutshell nutshells

nutsier

nutsiest

nutsy

peanuts

pinenuts

thumbnuts

walnuts

wingnuts