nut up

Meanings

verbnut up (third-person singular simple present nuts up, present participle nutting up, simple past and past participle nutted up)

present singular third person nuts up · participle present nutting up · participle past nutted up · past nutted up

intransitiveslangTo show courage and hide one's apprehension.
Synonyms: man up, endure, put up with, take lying down

verbnut up (third-person singular simple present nuts up, present participle nutting up, simple past and past participle nutted up)

present singular third person nuts up · participle present nutting up · participle past nutted up · past nutted up

intransitiveslangTo lose one's temper, go nuts.
And what if some shit went wrong? Pimp was known to get crazy over minor shit. I didn't know if I could trust him to pull off a job like this without nutting up in the middle of the mix.
2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103
Synonyms: nut out

verbTo show courage and hide one's apprehension.

verbTo lose one's temper, go nuts.

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nut up · verb

From nut + up (influenced by expressions like "man up" or "shut up"; "nut" refers to testicles, symbolically implying being more manly).

nut up · verb

From nut + up, apparently related to go nuts and do one's nut.

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