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Nut, NUT, Nuts or NUTS may refer to:

Food and plants

• Nut (fruit)
• Nut grass, (Cyperus rotundus) sometimes known as "the world's worst weed"

Mechanical devices

• Nut (hardware), a fastener used with a bolt
• 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
• The moving element of a ball screw

Media and entertainment

• Nuts (play), a 1979 play by Tom Topor
• Nuts (film), a 1987 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt; the screenplay by Tom Topor, Darryl Ponicsan, and Alvin Sargent is based on Topor's 1979 play of the same title
• Nuts (magazine), a weekly UK men's magazine
• Nuts TV, a British television channel related to Nuts magazine
• Nuts, a 1970s comic strip in National Lampoon by Gahan Wilson
• Nuts, a 1990s comic strip in alternative newspapers by M. Wartella
• Nut (movie character) from the 1983 Hong Kong crime comedy, Oh, My Cops!, and the 1990 Hong Kong crime thriller, Against All
• Nut (Marvel Comics), a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe, based loosely on Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky
• Modesto Nuts, a minor league baseball team in Modesto, California, USA
• NBCUniversal Television Studios
• NUTS (student television), the student television station of the University of Nottingham

In slang

• Slang for a person suffering from insanity
• Slang term for testicle (vulgar in polite company)
• Slang financial term for monthly expense to keep a venture running
• Truck nuts, accessories for pickup trucks and other vehicles
• Slang term for ejaculate (vulgar in polite company)
• To headbutt, strike with the head
• Nut hand, a poker term

Science and technology

• NUTS (talker), an Internet communications server
• Network UPS Tools
• NUT Container, a multimedia container format

Other uses

• Nut (goddess), the Egyptian goddess of the sky
• The Nut (disambiguation)
• The Nut, a landmark near Stanley, Tasmania
• NUT Motorcycles, a British motorcycle manufacturer founded in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1912 by Hugh Mason and Jock Hall
• National Union of Teachers, a British trade union for school teachers
• No U-turn syndrome, a term describing Singaporean culture
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics is a standard for referencing the administrative divisions of European countries
• Nuclear Utilization Target Selection, a theory regarding nuclear weaponry
• "Nuts!", a quote attributed to General Anthony McAuliffe at the Battle of Bastogne
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, the abbreviation has since changed to NUST
• Niue time, the UTC−11:00 time zone
• En dash or nut, traditionally half the width of an em dash