From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgutgut1 /ɡʌt/ ●●○ noun 1 → gut reaction/feeling/instinct2 → guts3 inside your body a) guts [plural]HBA all the organs in someone’s body, especially when they have come out of their body There were blood and guts all over the place. b) HBA[countable] the tube through which food passes from your stomach SYN intestine It can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut.4 stomach [countable] informal someone’s stomach, especially when it is large SYN belly He felt as if someone had just kicked him in the gut. Phil has a huge beer gut (=unattractive fat stomach caused by drinking too much beer).5 string [uncountable]DT a type of strong string made from the intestine of an animal, and used for musical instruments such as violins → catgut6 → guts7 → guts8 → work/sweat your guts out9 → at gut level10 → I’ll have somebody’s guts for garters → blood-and-guts, → bust a gut at bust1(3), → hate somebody’s guts at hate1(2), → spill your guts at spill1(4)
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gut• Hector said forcefully and directly to my father, making my guts jump.• He hit me right in the gut.• The sterilisation of the gut by the washout can even prevent the cleavage.• We can follow gastrulation in the early development of the sea-urchin and actually see the gut forming.• Like jellyfish, they have only one opening to their gut through which they both take in food and eject waste.• But for those with guts, some of the highest yields around can be found here -- and even an occasional windfall.beer gut• At only seventeen, Lonny already had the beginnings of a beer gut.• His beer gut was popping the buttons on his shirt.gutgut2 verb (gutted, gutting) [transitive] 1 BURNto completely destroy the inside of a building, especially by fire The building was gutted by fire.Grammar Gut is often passive in this meaning.2 DFCto remove the organs from inside a fish or animal in order to prepare it for cooking3 REMOVEto change something by removing some of the most important or central parts → gutted→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
gut• Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take, I was gutted.• Gut and clean all the fish before cooking.• Now they've been given a derelict school building, gutted by fire, for their new community association.• The hotel which had been gutted by fire last year, re-opened for business during August.• The Sunday night fire gutted St. Mary's church.• Democrats have gutted the anti-crime bill.• Passage came after two amendments to gut the bill were defeated.• When I came back from fishing yesterday you were beside me in the lean-to gutting the catch with me.Origin gut1 Old English guttas (plural) 