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gut shoot

gut shoot is the alternative form of gut-shoot.

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

Forms of gut shoot

third-person singular presentgut shoots
present participlegut shooting
past participlegut shot
pastgut shot

Questions about gut shoot

What is gut shoot the alternative form of?
Gut shoot is the alternative form of gut-shoot.

Words near gut shoot in the dictionary

  1. gut reactions
  2. gut rehab
  3. gut roll
  4. gut rolls
  5. gut rot
  6. gut shoot
  7. gut shooting
  8. gut shoots
  9. gut shot
  10. gut shot straight
  11. gut shot straights

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