coming a gutser

Verb

come a gutser (third-person singular simple present comes a gutser, present participle coming a gutser, simple past came a gutser, past participle come a gutser)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face.
   • Slippery as a butcher's apron it is, and I comes a gutser twice before I gets down to the stag.1964, Ron Helmer, Stag Party, page 82
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To fail miserably; to make a huge mistake; to fall flat on one's face.
   • Ole Fritz keeps on tryin' ter feel our possies at night with small patrols, an' they tried ter raid us two nights ago, but came a gutser, 'coz we hopped out an' met 'em, an' they put their 'ands up.1919, C. Hampton Thorp, A Handful of Ausseys, page 288