gut
gut /g'ʌt/ (guts gutting gutted)
1 [N-PLURAL]
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.
2 [VERB] V n
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.
3 [N-SING] the/poss N
The gut is the tube inside the body of a person or animal through which food passes while it is being digested.
4 [N-UNCOUNT]
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...
5 [N-SING] usu N n
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.
6 [N-COUNT] usu sing
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.
see also beer gut
7 [VERB] V n, V-ed
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.
8 [N-UNCOUNT]
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.
9
see also gutted
10 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you hate someone's guts, you dislike them very much indeed. (INFORMAL)
We hate each other's guts.
11 [PHRASE] V inflects
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.beer gut (beer guts)
also beer-gut
[N-COUNT]
A beer gut is the same as a beer belly.
1 [N-PLURAL]
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.
2 [VERB] V n
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.
3 [N-SING] the/poss N
The gut is the tube inside the body of a person or animal through which food passes while it is being digested.
4 [N-UNCOUNT]
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...
5 [N-SING] usu N n
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.
6 [N-COUNT] usu sing
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.
see also beer gut
7 [VERB] V n, V-ed
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.
8 [N-UNCOUNT]
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.
9
see also gutted
10 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you hate someone's guts, you dislike them very much indeed. (INFORMAL)
We hate each other's guts.
11 [PHRASE] V inflects
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.beer gut (beer guts)
also beer-gut
[N-COUNT]
A beer gut is the same as a beer belly.