nut out
/ˈnʌt aʊt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To find a solution (for something), especially in a group discussion; also, to work out the finer details (of something).
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Slang; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "[A] chronic optimistic faith in pragmatic experiment to overcome deficiencies in the knowledge of these experts (rather than set up an expensive preparatory research program) was responsible for the difficulties that immediately occurred when the factory began to produce glass in July 1962. An Auckland newspaper reporter transmitted the parochial attitude of the technical management when he boasted that the finer points of glassmaking “had to be nutted out by Kiwis on the spot.”"
- "On the Monday afternoon, at about four o'clock, Mervyn said, “Well, we’re doing a lot of sitting around gas, gas, gas, but it seems to me we’ve got everything there is to nut out, nutted out.[…]”"
- "In ’86 Frank helped Ian [Roberts] nut out his first contract—$26,000 a year—[…]"
- "An inquiry takes place and more often than not all sides of politics—I should use ‘all’ rather than ‘both’ with the member for Cunningham sitting opposite—get together and nut out something, compromising a little bit here or there to come up with a final result."
- "Nutting out our own way of doing things may take some work, but we get there."
- "There was also the Black political pimp syndrome where a few middle-class and bourgeois negroes got big off the people’s struggles, and then nutted out completely, joining forces with our enemies, as agents, messengers, sophisticated stool pigeons, professional confusers."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnʌt aʊt/
- British English: /ˈnʌt aʊt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
nut up
craze
have a kangaroo loose in the top paddock
have a screw loose
have bats in one's belfry
have bats in the belfry
have squirrels in the attic
have toys in the attic
nut out
rave