(simile, humorous) Useless; pointless.

(simile, informal) Thoroughly useless.

(idiomatic) To use significantly excessive force to carry out an action; to do something overzealously.

simple past tense and past participle of use a sledgehammer to crack a nut

Indicates that the speaker wants to communicate with someone via the interlocutor's telephone, if it is available.

(chiefly US, South Africa, Canada, euphemistic, interrogative) Used to ask if one's interlocutor needs to urinate or defecate.

Alternative form of there's no point crying over spilt milk

plural of US survey acre

A unit of length equal to ¹²⁰⁰⁄₃₉₃₇ of a meter, used in some states for measuring land.

Someone from the US Virgin Islands