Definition of "nugget" []

• A small, solid lump, especially of gold. (noun)
• A small compact portion or unit: nuggets of information. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Things are no different for MySpace, as this little nugget from a research report published by J.P. Morgan shows:"
• "Once again, it falls to me to read the complete story that trhe idiot troll posts, and to post this nugget from the same story:"
• ""For all anybody knows," he said, pointing to a hillside across the creek bottom, "the moss under the snow there may be plumb rooted in nugget gold.""