nuts
IPA: nˈʌts
noun
- (poker) An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.
- (geography) Initialism of Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques: (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics - an EU classification system of geographical administrative areas for statistical purposes)
adjective
- (colloquial) Insane, mad.
- (colloquial, figuratively) Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
- (colloquial) Very fond of (on) someone.
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Examples of "nuts" in Sentences
- The nuts secure the arrangement in place.
- Masticating nuts is hard, but it's worth to try.
- And a golf club to the nuts is the sincerest form of entertainment.
- Reading up on these “Nordic” nuts is like cleaning out the septic tank.
- Whenever a few of us label nuts were gathered together, we'd gripe about those plain vanilla labels.
- Both my husband and son are train nuts, so we hopped off the freeway to see what the fuss was about.
- One of the things that the drug manufacturers do that drives us nuts is advertise prescription drugs on television.
- When I said the word nuts, which is what Jesse Jackson actually did say that we knew at that time, I was not bleeped.
- What would really drive the left nuts is massive contributions to K-12 education in the form of scholarships to attend private schools.
- All afternoon she had been with the children, playing Oranges and lemons, A ring, a ring of roses, and Here we come gathering nuts in May, _nuts_ in May,
- In a fiercely argued critique of the proposed balanced-budget amendment, which he calls "nuts," Bartlett accuses Republican lawmakers of once again trying the "starve-the-beast" ploy that has repeatedly failed.
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