transcription, транскрипция: [ gʌt ]
( guts, gutting, gutted)
1.
A person’s or animal’s guts are all the organs inside them.
By the time they finish, the crewmen are standing ankle-deep in fish guts.
N-PLURAL
2.
When someone guts a dead animal or fish, they prepare it for cooking by removing all the organs from inside it.
It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.
VERB : V n
3.
The gut is the tube inside the body of a person or animal through which food passes while it is being digested.
N-SING : the / poss N
4.
Guts is the will and courage to do something which is difficult or unpleasant, or which might have unpleasant results. ( INFORMAL )
The new Chancellor has the guts to push through unpopular tax increases...
N-UNCOUNT
5.
A gut feeling is based on instinct or emotion rather than reason.
Let’s have your gut reaction to the facts as we know them.
N-SING : usu N n
6.
You can refer to someone’s stomach as their gut , especially when it is very large and sticks out. ( INFORMAL )
His gut sagged out over his belt.
N-COUNT : usu sing
see also beer gut
7.
To gut a building means to destroy the inside of it so that only its outside walls remain.
Over the weekend, a firebomb gutted a building where 60 people lived...
A factory stands gutted and deserted.
VERB : V n , V-ed
8.
Gut is string made from part of the stomach of an animal. Traditionally, it is used to make the strings of sports rackets or musical instruments such as violins.
N-UNCOUNT
9.
see also gutted
10.
If you hate someone’s guts , you dislike them very much indeed. ( INFORMAL )
We hate each other’s guts.
PHRASE : V inflects [ emphasis ]
11.
If you say that you are working your guts out or slogging your guts out , you are emphasizing that you are working as hard as you can. ( INFORMAL )
Most have worked their guts out and made sacrifices.
PHRASE : V inflects [ emphasis ]