guts out
guts out verb: to persevere through; to complete in spite of pain, etc. Also the third-person singular simple present indicative of gut out.
Verb
guts out (third-person singular simple present gutses out, present participle gutsing out, simple past and past participle gutsed out)
- To persevere through; to complete in spite of pain, etc.
- Again, name one. Every one of them is playing as hard as they can -- unless you can cite any hard evidence to the contrary. Or perhaps you haven't noticed that Tim Salmon is playing with a badly injured foot. Or how about Jim Edmonds playing with two bad knees last year. Or Jack McDowell gutsing...1998 May 26, S Smith1701, “Next Year? Why wait.”, in alt.sports.baseball.calif-angels (Usenet)
- Latty blinked. Another odd question from her odd roommate. Latty sort of liked Rowan, and the girl had gutsed out her initiation, but that Shanghai valley must have been utterly freako.2007, John David, Morituri: Sixth and Final Episode of Enemies of Society, AuthorHouse UK, page 100
Also used as
guts out is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of gut out.
Forms of guts out
| third-person singular present | gutses out |
|---|---|
| present participle | gutsing out |
| past participle | gutsed out |
| past | gutsed out |
Questions about guts out
- What does guts out mean?
- Guts out means to persevere through; to complete in spite of pain, etc.
- What part of speech is guts out?
- Guts out is a verb.
- What is the past tense of guts out?
- The past tense of guts out is gutsed out.
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