GUT


Meaning of GUT in English

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 ]

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне.