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gut-shoot

gut-shoot verb: to shoot in the gut with a firearm.

Verb

gut-shoot (third-person singular simple present gut-shoots, present participle gut-shooting, simple past and past participle gut-shot)

  1. (transitive) To shoot in the gut with a firearm.
    • In the case above, Bruce had gut-shot the buck.1997, Patrick Durkin, The Deer Hunters
    • Of all the fine men I've labored to save, it had to be you who survives being gut-shot.2000, Julia Hanlon, Mine for All Time, →ISBN, page 48

Forms of gut-shoot

third-person singular presentgut-shoots
present participlegut-shooting
past participlegut-shot
pastgut-shot
alternative formgut shoot
alternative formgutshoot

Origin of gut-shoot

From gut + shoot.

Questions about gut-shoot

What does gut-shoot mean?
Gut-shoot means to shoot in the gut with a firearm.
What part of speech is gut-shoot?
Gut-shoot is a verb.
What is the past tense of gut-shoot?
The past tense of gut-shoot is gut-shot.

Words near gut-shoot in the dictionary

  1. gut-churning
  2. gut-pudding
  3. gut-puddings
  4. gut-scraper
  5. gut-scrapers
  6. gut-shoot
  7. gut-shooting
  8. gut-shoots
  9. gut-shot
  10. gut-shot straight
  11. gut-shot straights

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