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blood-and-guts

blood-and-guts adjective: performed with vigor, ferocity, passion, or violence (especially in competition).

Adjective

blood-and-guts (not comparable)

  1. Performed with vigor, ferocity, passion, or violence (especially in competition).

Origin of blood-and-guts

Coined in 1937.

Questions about blood-and-guts

What does blood-and-guts mean?
Blood-and-guts means performed with vigor, ferocity, passion, or violence (especially in competition).
What part of speech is blood-and-guts?
Blood-and-guts is an adjective.

Words near blood-and-guts in the dictionary

  1. blood worms
  2. blood wurst
  3. blood wursts
  4. blood, sweat and tears
  5. blood, sweat, and tears
  6. blood-and-guts
  7. blood-and-gutsy
  8. blood-boiling
  9. blood-brain barrier
  10. blood-brain barriers
  11. blood-cell

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