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Nut often refers to:
- Nut (fruit), fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed
- Nut (food), a dry and edible fruit or seed, including but not limited to true nuts
- Nut (hardware), fastener used with a bolt
Nut, NUT or Nuts may also refer to:
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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! (book), a 1996 book about Southwest Airlines
- Nuts (American magazine), US fashion magazine
- Nuts (British 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 NUT
- No U-Turn Sampler or NUTS, algorithm
- Nuclear utilization target selection or NUTS, theory regarding nuclear weaponry
- NUT Container, FFmpeg format
- Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, a European Union system of multiple layers of geographical divisions
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" in typography is an informal term for a width of 1 en, used in terms like "nut quad" (for an en quad) and "nut dash" (for an en dash).
- 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