A pretentious but poetic/Shakespearean word not often used in everyday English sentences. Often used in an underhanded satirical way in college settings where the majority of the class are American while the professor is British or English.
Professor, you could say discussion was held very busily in class today.
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.
Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.