Nut

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Nut primarily refers to:

• Nut (fruit), a fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed
• Nut (hardware), a fastener used with a bolt

Nut, NUT, Nuts or NUTS may also refer to:

Places

• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of countries for statistical purposes in the European Union
• The Nut, a landmark near Stanley, Tasmania

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

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

Fictional or mythical entities

• Nut (goddess), the Egyptian goddess of the sky
• Nut (Marvel Comics), a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe, based loosely on Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky
• Nut (movie character), from the 1983 Hong Kong crime comedy Oh, My Cops!, and the 1990 Hong Kong crime thriller Against All

Film

• Nuts (1987 film), an American drama
• Nuts (2012 film), a French comedy
• Nuts! (2016 film), an animated documentary about controversial medical doctor John R. Brinkley

Music

• Nuts (album) by Kevin Gilbert

Printed works

• Nuts (magazine), a weekly UK men's magazine
• Nuts (play), a 1979 play by Tom Topor

Television

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

Mechanical tools

• Nut (climbing), a piece of metal wedged into a rock
• Nut (string instrument), of a string instrument is a small piece of hard material which supports the strings at the end closest to the headstock or scroll
• Nut, the moving element of a ball screw
• Nut, the En dash, traditionally half the width of an em dash

Organisations and schools

• National Union of Teachers or NUT, a British trade union for school teachers
• Newcastle University Theatre Society or NUT, an English student drama group
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, by former designation
• NUT Motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1912 by Hugh Mason and Jock Hall

Science and technology

• 306367 Nut, an Apollo asteroid discovered in 1960
• Network UPS Tools or NUTS
• NUT Container, an FFmpeg multimedia container format

Slang

• Nut hand or "the nuts", a poker term for an unbeatable hand
• Testicle
• Truck nuts, accessories for pickup trucks and other vehicles

Sport

• Modesto Nuts, a minor league baseball team in Modesto, California, USA

Other uses

• No U-turn syndrome or NUTS, a term describing Singaporean culture
• Nuclear utilization target selection or NUTS, a theory regarding nuclear weaponry
• "Nuts!" - response of US commander of troops, Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, during the Siege of Bastogne to request to surrender

See also

• Nut case
• Nut grass (Cyperus rotundus), sometimes known as "the world's worst weed"
• Nut job (disambiguation)
• Nutcracker
• Nutt (disambiguation)
• Nutter (disambiguation)
• The Nut (disambiguation)