Nut

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Nut often refers to:

  • Nut (fruit), fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed, or a collective noun for dry and edible fruits or seeds
  • Nut (hardware), fastener used with a bolt

Nut, NUT or Nuts may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

  • Nuts, comic in the National Lampoon by Gahan Wilson (1970s)
  • Nuts, comic strip in alternative newspapers by M. Wartella (1990s)

Fictional characters

  • Nut (Marvel Comics), fictional character evoking the Egyptian sky goddess
  • Nut (movie character), character portrayed by Shing Fui-On in two late 20th-century Hong Kong crime films

Films

  • Nuts (1987 film), American drama
  • Nuts (2012 film), French comedy
  • Nuts! (film), animated documentary on John R. Brinkley

Television

  • NBC Universal Television Studio, or NUTS, former name of television arm of NBCUniversal / Universal Television
  • Nuts TV, British television channel related to Nuts magazine

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Nut, album by KT Tunstall
  • Nuts (album), by Kevin Gilbert
  • Nuts (magazine), UK men's weekly
  • Nuts (play), 1979 play by Tom Topor
  • "Nuts", song by Brooke Candy and Lil Aaron

Health

  • NUT carcinoma, rare, very aggressive cancer

Institutions and organisations

Instruments and mechanical tools

  • Nut (climbing), metal device for wedging in rock crevices
  • Nut, moving element of a ball screw
  • Nut (string instrument), device supporting and stabilizing strings near the headstock of a violin or guitar

Science and technology

Slang

  • An insane person
  • Nut hand or "the nuts", poker term for an unbeatable hand
  • "Nuts", human testicles
  • "Nut", term that can either refer to semen or ejaculation

Other uses

  • Nut (goddess), the Egyptian goddess of the sky
  • Nut, the En dash in typography
  • Modesto Nuts, minor league baseball team in Modesto, California, USA
  • No U-turn syndrome or NUTS, term describing Singaporean culture
  • NUT Motorcycles, Newcastle-upon-Tyne motorcycle manufacturer
  • "Nuts!", U.S. Army General Anthony McAuliffe's refusal-to-surrender message during the World War II German siege of Bastogne
  • Nutty slack, cheap fuel consisting of slack (coal dust) and small lumps of coal (nuts) (British English)
  • The Nut (Tasmania), volcanic plug near the town of Stanley, Australia

See also

  • Nutcase (disambiguation)
  • Nut grass (disambiguation)
  • Nut job (disambiguation)
  • Nutcracker (disambiguation)
  • Nutt (disambiguation)
  • Nutter (disambiguation)
  • The Nut (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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