gut-shots

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
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