Usually means: Essential components for mechanical fastening.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word nuts and bolts:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. nuts-and-bolts, nuts and bolts: Merriam-Webster
  2. nuts and bolts: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nuts and bolts: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nuts-and-bolts, nuts-and-bolts, nuts and bolts: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nuts and bolts: Vocabulary.com
  6. the nuts and bolts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. nuts and bolts: Wiktionary
  8. nuts and bolts: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. nuts and bolts: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. nuts-and-bolts, nuts and bolts: Dictionary.com
  11. Nuts and Bolts (TV series), Nuts and Bolts (general relativity), Nuts and Bolts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. nuts and bolts: Rhymezone
  13. nuts and bolts: FreeDictionary.org
  14. nuts and bolts: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. nuts-and-bolts, nuts and bolts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuts-and-bolts, nuts and bolts, the nuts and bolts: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nuts and bolts: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nuts and bolts)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) The basic inner workings of something; the fundamentals; that which makes something operate.

Similar:
kernel, nucleus, nife, circuitry, nutritive, knobology, nuttery, nutarianism, nanoscience, osteogen, more...

Opposite:
abstract, theoretical, conceptual

Types:
hex bolt, carriage bolt, lag bolt, flange bolt, machine bolt, tap bolt, button head bolt, socket head bolt, eye bolt, more...

Phrases:
the nuts and bolts, circle with nuts and bolts, more...

Adjectives:
nuggetty, nuggety, brosey, gummy, chitty, crackling, chewy, stuffed, cabbagey, buckshee, curdy

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Similar:
kernel, nucleus, nife, circuitry, nutritive, knobology, nuttery, nutarianism, nanoscience, osteogen, more...

Opposite:
abstract, theoretical, conceptual

Types:
hex bolt, carriage bolt, lag bolt, flange bolt, machine bolt, tap bolt, button head bolt, socket head bolt, eye bolt, more...

Phrases:
the nuts and bolts, circle with nuts and bolts, more...

Adjectives:
nuggetty, nuggety, brosey, gummy, chitty, crackling, chewy, stuffed, cabbagey, buckshee, curdy



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