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gut     (gŭt)  Pronunciation Key 
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. 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.
  2. guts The bowels; entrails; viscera.
  3. 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.
  4. guts Slang
    1. Courage; fortitude.
    2. Nerve; audacity.
  5. Slang A gut course.
  6. A thin, tough cord made from the intestines of animals, usually sheep, used as strings for musical instruments or as surgical sutures.
  7. A narrow passage or channel.
  8. Fibrous material taken from the silk gland of a silkworm before it spins a cocoon, used for fishing tackle.
tr.v.   gut·ted, gut·ting, guts
  1. To remove the intestines or entrails of; eviscerate.
  2. To extract essential or major parts of: gut a manuscript.
  3. To destroy the interior of: Fire gutted the house.
  4. To reduce or destroy the effectiveness of: A stipulation added at the last minute gutted the ordinance.
adj.   Slang
Arousing or involving basic emotions; visceral: "Conservationism is a gut issue in the West" (Saturday Review).

[From Middle English guttes, entrails, from Old English guttas; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.]
gut'ty adj.
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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.

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