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• n  usually large hard-shelled seed
• n  Egyptian goddess of the sky
• n  a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
• n  half the width of an em
• n  a whimsically eccentric person
• n  someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
  a car nut
• n  one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
• v  gather nuts

• Michael Duva Getty Recently, a Massachusetts school district evacuated a school bus full of 10-year-olds after a stray peanut was found on the floor.
• Is evacuating a school bus full of children because of a lone peanut on the floor a smart precaution or overkill?.
• The injection counteracts anaphylactic shock, a potentially deadly allergic reaction that results in closed airways and can be triggered by mere contact with a nut-based product.

• Nut
• en
• crackpot
• crank
• nut case
• fruitcake
• screwball
• addict
• freak
• junkie
• junky
• testis
• testicle
• orchis
• ball
• ballock
• bollock
• egg

News & Articles

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• What are the top 10 natural and organic food trends that will influence the mainstream? From novel nut butters to ...
  Gourmet nut butters, pea protein, purple corn, yogurt for men and more chewy drinks? Sterling-Rice Group identifies the top 10 natural and organic food trends that are starting to influence the mainstream grocery market.
  June 14, 2013 - Food Navigator USA
• Rugby-Lions' Heaslip pays tribute to 'madman' Cheika
  SYDNEY, June 14 (Reuters) - Michael Cheika's coaching style at Leinster was not to every player's liking, but his "hard nut" approach will ensure the New South Wales Waratahs are fired up for their tour clash against the British and Irish Lions, said back-rower Jamie Heaslip. Heaslip experienced Cheika's uncompromising ways firsthand at Leinster and tasted success under the Australian coach who ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Siberian Pine Nut Oil and the Raw Foods Diet
  Siberian Pine Nut Oil offers three tips for those choosing a raw foods diet lifestyle. (PRWeb June 12, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Raw-Food/Raw-Food-Diet/prweb10815756.htm
  June 12, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Kobe Bryant in AFP
  I know every series that the Lakers have played in,Bryant said. "I mean, I was just a Laker nut, and I know every Celtics series, I know every statistic. (Winning) meant the world to me."
• Kurt Vonnegut in MSNBC
  When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon,Vonnegut said with a wheezy laugh worthy of a long-term chain smoker. "My father, like Hemingway, was a gun nut and was very unhappy...
• Andy Reid in ABC News
  Brian wants to go. He's in the mind-set that he wants to play, but it's a decision that I've got to make,coach Andy Reid said Friday. "He's a tough nut and I know that. I've got to do what I think is best for him and the football team down...