gutshot

gutshot is the simple past and past participle of gutshoot.

Noun

gutshot (plural gutshots)

(slang) A poker hand which is four cards to a straight, where only one rank can complete a straight. E.g. 3-4-6-7, only a five completes the straight; A gut-shot straight.
A shot in the gut.
- A 22-year-old soldier with thoracic gutshot injury and subsequent right-sided pneumonectomy and partial left-sided lung resection went into critical respiratory failure.2011, Alois Philippa, Matthias Arltb, Matthias Amannb, Dirk Lunzb, Thomas Müllerc, Michael Hilkera, Bernhard Grafb, Christof Schmida, “First experience with the ultra compact mobile extracorporeal...
- But we never got to take the shot I'd been trained to take, that beautiful single shot that takes out a man's head, or the gutshot—Chris Kyle's favorite—that allows him to bleed out and die a little slower, maybe think about all the ways he might have lived a different and better life.2013, Anthony Swofford, Death of an American Sniper, →ISBN

gutshot (not comparable)

Shot in the gut.
- For the first group, hunting is the gutshot deer gasping to death while its killer has given up pursuit, the woman in Maine shot in her own backyard by a hunter who thought her brown coat and white mittens meant a deer, and hoarse, bloodthirsty varmint hunters "blazing" away1995 Autumn, Thomas L. Altherr, John F. Reiger, “Academic historians and hunting: A call for more and better scholarship”, in Environmental History Review, volume 19, number 3
- He never got used to the sight of elk with broken hips, missing legs and hooves, damaged backs, and gutshot skeletons that trailed in for the security and protection of his ranch.2008, Laurie Wagner Buyer, Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles, →ISBN, page 29
Extremely dismayed or distressed.
- The Calamity had convinced some Americans that hell was at hand -- and now Charlie Hart was driving the road that led there, Interstate 15 from Las Vegas to the California border on any given Sunday, losers beating their ways home, hungover and sick and feeling gutshot, got to go to work in the...2005, David Lozell Martin, Facing Rushmore, →ISBN, page 214
- Patterson grins a grin that he means to be rakish, but he's pretty sure it just comes off as gutshot.2014, Benjamin Whitmer, Cry Father, →ISBN, page 149

plural	gutshots

What does gutshot mean?: Gutshot means a poker hand which is four cards to a straight, where only one rank can complete a straight. E.g. 3-4-6-7, only a five completes the straight; A gut-shot straight.
What is gutshot the simple past and past participle of?: Gutshot is the simple past and past participle of gutshoot.
What part of speech is gutshot?: Gutshot can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of gutshot?: The plural of gutshot is gutshots.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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