gut it out

1. The alimentary canal or a portion thereof, especially the intestine or stomach.

2. The embryonic digestive tube, consisting of the foregut, the midgut, and the hindgut.

3. Innermost emotional or visceral response: She felt in her gut that he was guilty.

4. guts The essential components or inner working parts: "The best part of a good car . . . is its guts" (Leigh Allison Wilson).

5. Courage; fortitude.

6. Nerve; audacity.

guts The bowels; entrails; viscera.

Slang

1. Innermost emotional or visceral response: She felt in her gut that he was guilty.

2. guts The essential components or inner working parts: "The best part of a good car . . . is its guts" (Leigh Allison Wilson).

3. Courage; fortitude.

4. Nerve; audacity.

guts Slang

1. Courage; fortitude.

2. Nerve; audacity.

Slang A gut course.

A thin, tough cord made from the intestines of animals, usually sheep, used as strings for musical instruments or as surgical sutures.

A narrow passage or channel.

Fibrous material taken from the silk gland of a silkworm before it spins a cocoon, used for fishing tackle.

To remove the intestines or entrails of; eviscerate.

To extract essential or major parts of: gut a manuscript.

To destroy the interior of: Fire gutted the house.

To reduce or destroy the effectiveness of: A stipulation added at the last minute gutted the ordinance.