Usually means: Agreeing or acknowledging without speaking.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. on the nod: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. on the nod: Merriam-Webster
  3. on the nod: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. on the nod: Collins English Dictionary
  5. on the nod: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. on the nod: Wiktionary
  7. on the nod: Dictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. on the nod: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. On the nod: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. on the nod: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (on the nod)

▸ adverb:  (UK, informal) With no discussion or controversy.
▸ adjective:  (slang) In a stuporous state following a high from heroin.

Similar:
no questions asked, unquestioningly, no bones about it, normlessly, noplace, unwarnedly, currente calamo, no strings attached, doubtlessly, absque dubio, more...

Opposite:
awake, alert, conscious

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Similar:
no questions asked, unquestioningly, no bones about it, normlessly, noplace, unwarnedly, currente calamo, no strings attached, doubtlessly, absque dubio, more...

Opposite:
awake, alert, conscious



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