(~s, ~ting, ~ted)
1.
A person’s or animal’s ~s are all the organs inside them.
By the time they finish, the crewmen are standing ankle-deep in fish ~s.
N-PLURAL
2.
When someone ~s a dead animal or fish, they prepare it for cooking by removing all the organs from inside it.
It is not always necessary to ~ the fish prior to freezing.
VERB: V n
3.
The ~ 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 ~s to push through unpopular tax increases...
N-UNCOUNT
5.
A ~ feeling is based on instinct or emotion rather than reason.
Let’s have your ~ reaction to the facts as we know them.
N-SING: usu N n
6.
You can refer to someone’s stomach as their ~, especially when it is very large and sticks out. (INFORMAL)
His ~ sagged out over his belt.
N-COUNT: usu sing
see also beer ~
7.
To ~ a building means to destroy the inside of it so that only its outside walls remain.
Over the weekend, a firebomb ~ted a building where 60 people lived...
A factory stands ~ted 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 ~ted
10.
If you hate someone’s ~s, you dislike them very much indeed. (INFORMAL)
We hate each other’s ~s.
PHRASE: V inflects emphasis
11.
If you say that you are working your ~s out or slogging your ~s out, you are emphasizing that you are working as hard as you can. (INFORMAL)
Most have worked their ~s out and made sacrifices.
PHRASE: V inflects emphasis