Nut

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

• National Union of Teachers or NUT, former British trade union for school teachers
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology or NUT
• NUT (studio), anime studio

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

• 306367 Nut, Apollo asteroid (1960)
• Network UPS Tools or NUTS
• No U-Turn Sampler or NUTS, algorithm
• Nuclear utilization target selection or NUTS, theory regarding nuclear weaponry
• NUT Container, FFmpeg format

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
• NUTS, European Union system of multiple layers of geographical divisions known as Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
• 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)