<span class="searchmatch">nut</span> <span class="searchmatch">cutting</span> (uncountable) The exertion of maximum effort, for example, due to an approaching deadline or a looming competitive situation. <span class="searchmatch">nut</span>-<span class="searchmatch">cutting</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">nut</span>-<span class="searchmatch">cutting</span> time (uncountable) The optimal time to gather nuts before they are seized by other animals or buried in snow. 1951, Journal of the Tennessee...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">Nut</span>, <span class="searchmatch">NUT</span>, <span class="searchmatch">nuť</span>, <span class="searchmatch">nút</span>, <span class="searchmatch">nût</span>, <span class="searchmatch">nứt</span>, <span class="searchmatch">Nüt</span>, -<span class="searchmatch">nut</span>, and -<span class="searchmatch">núť</span> <span class="searchmatch">nut</span> (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nùng. Wiktionary’s coverage of Nùng...
reaching crunch time as Ukraine wages a slow but steady counter-offensive. (basketball) The last few minutes of play in the fourth quarter. <span class="searchmatch">nut</span>-<span class="searchmatch">cutting</span> time...
From candle + <span class="searchmatch">nut</span>. candlenut (plural candlenuts) A flowering tree (Aleurites moluccana and Aleurites rockinghamensis) of the family Euphorbiaceae, also...
we can be agile, we can do things more slickly. when the pressure is on in a pinch <span class="searchmatch">nut</span>-<span class="searchmatch">cutting</span> time when the chips are down when the gloves come off...
of a lapidary and which is used as a guide for the vertical angle when <span class="searchmatch">cutting</span> facets, and also to support the arm of the lapidary. 1850, Charles Holtzapffel...
English kerf, kirf, kyrf, from Old English cyrf (“an act of <span class="searchmatch">cutting</span>, a <span class="searchmatch">cutting</span> off; a <span class="searchmatch">cutting</span> instrument”), from Proto-West Germanic *kurbi, from Proto-Germanic...
an obvious untruth. When a politician claims he can lower taxes without <span class="searchmatch">cutting</span> spending, he's lying through his teeth. To tell a gross or egregious untruth...
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