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gut-shot

gut-shot is the simple past and past participle of gut-shoot.

gut-shot is the alternative form of gut shot.

Adjective

gut-shot (not comparable)

  1. Having been shot in the gut.
    • For instance, one writer who discussed tracking gut-shot deer talked about a kidney hit and compared it to the liver and stomach wound.2001, John Trout, Jr., Finding Wounded Deer: Tracking Deer Shot with Bow Or Gun, →ISBN, page 2
    • The terrible screams of this gut-shot kid made you do a lot of thinking of things besides hunting for the road.2009, Harry Arthur Gant, I Saw Them Ride Away, →ISBN, page 39
  2. Extremely dismayed or distressed.
    • What he liked, his mother absolutely wouldn't like, and since it had been his bright idea for Conchita to come over so that she might finally meet his mother, an idea that, as soon as it was broached, developed an alarming weight of regret, regret so heavy he found himself unable to put the phone...2003, Melinda Haynes, Willem's Field: A Novel, →ISBN, page 281
    • She still felt gut-shot with guilt.2008, Ilsa Evans, Broken - Volume 1, →ISBN

Meaning of gut-shoot

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

Meaning of gut shot

Noun

gut shot (plural gut shots)

  1. A shot in the gut.
    • If you're sure of a gut shot, the buck will usually be bedded within five hundred yards of where it was hit.1995, Whitetail: The Ultimate Challenge, page 166
  2. (slang) A gut-shot straight.
    • If you raise, you're probably going to force players with second pair or a gut shot to fold, so your best option is to call.2014, V.T., Playing Online Texas Hold ‘Em

Forms of gut-shot

Verb
alternative formgutshot
alternative formgut shot
Noun
pluralgut-shots

Phrases with gut-shot

Questions about gut-shot

What does gut-shot mean?
Gut-shot means having been shot in the gut.
What is gut-shot the simple past and past participle of?
Gut-shot is the simple past and past participle of gut-shoot.
What part of speech is gut-shot?
Gut-shot is an adjective.

Words near gut-shot in the dictionary

  1. gut-scraper
  2. gut-scrapers
  3. gut-shoot
  4. gut-shooting
  5. gut-shoots
  6. gut-shot
  7. gut-shot straight
  8. gut-shot straights
  9. gut-shots
  10. gut-tie
  11. gut-wrenched

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