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   [guht] noun, verb, gut·ted, gut·ting, adjective
noun
1.
the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
2.
guts,
a.
the bowels or entrails.
b.
Informal. courage and fortitude; nerve; determination; stamina: Climbing that cliff takes a lot of guts.
c.
the inner working parts of a machine or device: The mechanic had the guts of the refrigerator laid out on the kitchen floor.
3.
the belly; stomach; abdomen.
4.
the substance forming the case of the intestine; intestinal tissue or fiber: sheep's gut.
5.
a preparation of the intestines of an animal, used for various purposes, as for violin strings, tennis rackets, or fishing lines.
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6.
the silken substance taken from a silkworm killed when about to spin its cocoon, used in making snells for fishhooks.
7.
a narrow passage, as a channel of water or a defile between hills.
8.
Slang. a gut course.
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verb (used with object)
9.
to take out the guts or entrails of; disembowel.
10.
to destroy the interior of: Fire gutted the building.
11.
to plunder (a house, city, etc.) of contents: Invaders gutted the village.
12.
to remove the vital or essential parts from: The prisoner's letters were gutted by heavy censorship.

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adjective
13.
Informal.
a.
basic or essential: to discuss the gut issues.
b.
based on instincts or emotions: a gut reaction; gut decisions.
Idiom
14.
spill one's guts, Slang. to tell all; lay oneself bare: the famous star spills his guts in his autobiography.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English gut, guttes (plural), Old English guttas (plural), akin to gēotan to pour

Related forms
gut·like, adjective
un·gut·ted, adjective

Synonyms
2b. pluck.

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Word Origin & History

gut
O.E. guttas (pl.) "bowels, entrails," related to geotan "to pour," from PIE *gh(e)u- "pour." Related to M.Du. gote, Ger. Gosse "gutter, drain," M.E. gote "channel, stream." Meaning "easy college course" is student slang from 1916, probably from obsolete slang sense of "feast" (the connecting notion is
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"something that one can eat up"). Sense of "inside contents of anything" (usually pl.) is from 1580. Figurative pl. guts "spirit, courage," first recorded 1893; hence gutless "cowardly" (1915). The verb meaning "to remove the guts of" (of fish, etc.) is from c.1300. To hate (someone's) guts is first attested 1918. Gut reaction is 1963, probably a back-formation from gutsy (1936) "tough, plucky."
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gut (gŭt)
n.

  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. guts The bowels; entrails; viscera.

  4. A thin, tough cord made from the intestines of animals, usually sheep, used as suture material in surgery.

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Science Dictionary
gut   (gŭt)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. The intestine of a vertebrate animal.

  2. The alimentary canal of an invertebrate animal.

  3. The tube in a vertebrate embryo that later develops into the alimentary canal, lungs, and liver.


GUT  
Abbreviation of grand unified theory See unified field theory.
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gut definition

[gət]
  1. n.
    the belly; the intestines. : Tom poked Bill right in the gut.
  2. mod.
    basic; fundamental. : We are not dealing with what I would call one of the gut matters of the day.
  3. mod.
    [of a college or high school course] easy. : I won't take anymore gut economics courses. Even those are hard.
  4. n.
    an easy course in school. : That course is a gut.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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guts definition

[gəts]
  1. n.
    courage; bravado. : It takes guts to do something like that.
  2. n.
    the belly; the intestines. : I've got some kind of pain in the guts.
  3. n.
    the inner workings of anything. : There's something wrong in the guts of this clock.
  4. n.
    the essence of something. : Let's discuss the real guts of this issue.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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