nuts

Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.

Adjective

  1. Insane, mad.
    • After living on the island alone for five years, he eventually went nuts.
    • Are you nuts?
    • Seriously? This is nuts!
  2. Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
    • I just go nuts over her fantastic desserts.
    • The referee made a bad call against the home team and the crowd went nuts.
  3. Very fond of (on) someone.
    • He's been nuts on her since the day they met.

Forms

more nuts most nuts

Synonyms

nutty

Interjection

  1. Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.
    • Nuts! They didn't even listen to what I had to say.
  2. Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to.
    • They want me to pay $5 for a banana? Nuts to that!

Noun plural, plural only

  1. The testicles.
  2. An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.
    • If the board is 237QA, all of spades, the nuts is 45 of spades.
    • If the board is 4444J, the nuts is any hand with an ace.

Derived

nutted

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of nut

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of nut

Related

dead-nuts

Derived

bugnuts drive someone nuts fucknuts fuzznuts go nuts numbnuts nutso nuts to nutsy nutzoid shitnuts