Stud

Stud could mean:

• Stud (animal) - a male animal employed for breeding
  • By analogy, a virile human male (see gender role)
• A small ornamental button mounted on a short post for insertion through an eyelet
• Screw - a threaded fastener
• The interlocking circular piece of a LEGO brick
• Snowmobile Stud - a metal threaded piece installed in a snowmobile rubber track
• Stud earring for pierced ears
• Cleat - a protrusion on the bottom of a shoe to provide extra grip
• Shoe studs - a traction device used on the bottom of horse shoes
• Traction devices inserted in the tread of automobile winter tires
• Wall stud - a vertical member within a light-frame construction wall
• Stud poker - a kind of card game:
  • Five-card stud
  • Seven-card stud
  • Caribbean Stud Poker
• Studs (game show) - a dating show from the early 1990s
• Stud contact system, an obsolete Ground-level power supply system for tramways