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English
Adjective
nut-bar (comparative more nut-bar, superlative most nut-bar)
- (informal) Crazy, mad.
2015 November 19, Jamie Wall, “Sky's the limit for Richie McCaw”, in Radio New Zealand:McCaw won every trophy going, but also something probably harder than all of them: the near-universal respect of the notoriously fickle New Zealand rugby fan. Yes, even the most nut-bar talkback caller would have a hard time admitting McCaw hasn't been absolutely incredible for all of his 14 seasons in an All Black jersey.
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nut-bar (plural nut-bars)
- (hardware) A bar or shaft with an aperture for a bolt or threaded rod to attach to or pass through.
1879, Thomas E. Morpeth, Rock and coal drilling machines, US Patent 216,437, page 493:The bit-screw, passing through the nut-bar, is then turned back from the face of the coal or rock as far as is found necessary, and the bit secured to the same.
- (informal) An insane person, a crazy person, a madwoman or madman.
2007, Emily Givner, A Heart in Port, page 202:The nut-bar in Bed Three kept us all awake with his morose, nonsensical prophesies. And by “all of us” I mean myself, the gentleman in Bed Two, and the nut-bar as well, of course
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