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What (who) is gut - definition
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The Gut; GUT; Guts (disambiguation); Gut (disambiguation); Guts (book); Guts (album); Guts (game); Guts (film)
gut
(guts, gutting, gutted)
1.
A person's or animal's guts are all the organs inside them.
By the time they finish, the crewmen are standing ankle-deep in fish guts.
N-PLURAL
2.
When someone guts a dead animal or fish, they prepare it for cooking by removing all the organs from inside it.
It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.
VERB: V n
3.
The gut is the tube inside the body of a person or animal through which food passes while it is being digested.
N-SING: the/poss N
4.
Guts is the will and courage to do something which is difficult or unpleasant, or which might have unpleasant results. (INFORMAL)
The new Chancellor has the guts to push through unpopular tax increases...
N-UNCOUNT
5.
A gut feeling is based on instinct or emotion rather than reason.
Let's have your gut reaction to the facts as we know them.
N-SING: usu N n
6.
You can refer to someone's stomach as their gut, especially when it is very large and sticks out. (INFORMAL)
His gut sagged out over his belt.
N-COUNT: usu sing
see also beer gut
7.
To gut a building means to destroy the inside of it so that only its outside walls remain.
Over the weekend, a firebomb gutted a building where 60 people lived...
A factory stands gutted and deserted.
VERB: V n, V-ed
8.
Gut is string made from part of the stomach of an animal. Traditionally, it is used to make the strings of sports rackets or musical instruments such as violins.
N-UNCOUNT
9.
see also gutted
10.
If you hate someone's guts, you dislike them very much indeed. (INFORMAL)
We hate each other's guts.
PHRASE: V inflects [emphasis]
11.
If you say that you are working your guts out or slogging your guts out, you are emphasizing that you are working as hard as you can. (INFORMAL)
Most have worked their guts out and made sacrifices.
PHRASE: V inflects [emphasis]
gut
I. n.
1.
Intestine.
2.
Strait, narrow pass.
II. v. a.
Eviscerate, disembowel, embowel, paunch, take out the bowels of.
gut
¦ noun
1. the stomach or belly.
Medicine & Biology the intestine.
(guts) entrails that have been removed or exposed.
fibre from the intestines of animals, used especially for violin or racket strings.
2. (guts) the internal parts or essence of something.
3. (guts) informal used in names attributing negative characteristics: greedy guts.
4. (guts) informal courage and determination.
5. [as modifier] informal (of a feeling or reaction) instinctive.
6. a narrow passage or strait.
¦ verb (guts, gutting, gutted)
1. remove the internal organs of (a fish or other animal) before cooking.
2. remove or destroy the internal parts of (a structure).
Phrases
bust a gut informal make a strenuous effort.
hate someone's guts informal dislike someone intensely.
have someone's guts for garters Brit. humorous used as a threat of punishment.
sweat (or work) one's guts out informal work extremely hard.
Origin
OE guttas (plural), prob. related to geotan 'pour'.
Examples of use of gut
1. G is for GUT A poor complexion may be a sign of problems in the gut.
2. My gut feeling was negative, and my lawyers supported it.
3. Repeated enemas or gut surgery increase the risk.
4. Mikhailov‘s advice is to always follow gut instincts.
5. Olsen, 60, appeared unaffected by the gut–wrenching trip home.