an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
mod. courageous; feisty. : Ernie's acting sort of gutsy today. What happened?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
The best dishes are direct and true, with clear flavors enhanced with gentle and occasionally gutsy seasonings.
The development of the frontier clearly depended on the industry, energy, andgutsy persistence of myriad individuals.
Those gutsy enough to swoop can enjoy rich pickings.
The photos here show the gutsy excursions of these field researchers.
They're an intriguing bunch, who combine a kind of raw experience and world-weariness with gutsy, un-pretty uses of the body.
In fact, they made one gutsy move for which they got little credit in the press.
He doesn't want to think about how tired he is, or that teaching is a mental combat sport, as well as a gutsy performance art.
Betting your whole retirement nest-egg at your age is truly gutsy.
But now a small number of gutsy chiropractors are themselves speaking out against anti-vaccination doctrine.
He is a gutsy, earthy, wilful leader whose style is to listen before making up his mind and then dominate.