RUT definition

RUT

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WordNet

(1) A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

"They fell into a conversational rut"

(2) A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)

(3) Applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

(4) Hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

"Furrow soil"

(5) Be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals

WiktionaryText

Old French ‘noise, roar, bellowing’, from Latin rugitus, from rugire ‘to roar’

A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. (See also rutter)
A dull routine.

Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.