nutcrack

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verb

To crack nuts for food.

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Meanings

verbnutcrack (third-person singular simple present nutcracks, present participle nutcracking, simple past and past participle nutcracked)

present singular third person nutcracks · participle present nutcracking · participle past nutcracked · past nutcracked

  1. To crack nuts for food.

    2012 Claudio Tennie, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello "Untrained Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Fail to Imitate Novel Actions" PLos ONE Marshall-Pescini and Whiten noticed that Baluku performed cracking actions in the air while watching the demonstrator nutcrack […]

Origin

From nut + crack.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

cracknut
Cite this entry
APA

nutcrack. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutcrack

MLA

“nutcrack.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutcrack. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nutcrack,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutcrack.

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