1. the alimentary canal or a portion thereof, especially the intestine or stomach.
2. the embryonic digestive tube, consisting of the foregut, the midgut, and the hindgut.
3. the bowels; entrails; viscera.
4. slang innermost emotional or visceral response: she felt in her gut that he was guilty.
5. slang the essential components or inner working parts: "the best part of a good car . . . is its guts” ( leigh Allison Wilson).
6. slang courage; fortitude.
7. slang nerve; audacity.
8. slang A gut course.
9. A thin, tough cord made from the intestines of animals, usually sheep, used as strings for musical instruments or as surgical sutures.
10. A narrow passage or channel.
11. fibrous material taken from the silk gland of a silkworm before it spins a cocoon, used for fishing tackle.
12. to remove the intestines or entrails of; eviscerate.
13. to extract essential or major parts of: gut a manuscript.
14. to destroy the interior of: fire gutted the house.
15. to reduce or destroy the effectiveness of: A stipulation added at the last minute gutted the ordinance.
16. slang arousing or involving basic emotions; visceral: "conservationism is a gut issue in the west” ( saturday review).
17. gut it out slang to show pluck and perseverance in the face of opposition or adversity.

1. the alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
2. the abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
3. the intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
4. A person's emotional, visceral self.
5. this sense?) any small internal organs.
6. the essential, core parts.
7. ability and will to face up to adversity or unpleasantness.
8. A gut course
9. to eviscerate.
10. to remove or destroy the most important parts of.
11. made of gut, e.g., a violin with gut strings
12. instinctive, e.g., a gut reaction

1. A narrow passage of water.
2. an intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
3. one of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. see catgut.
4. the sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. this, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.
5. to take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
6. to plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of.

1. to take out the entrails of; disembowel; eviscerate.
2. to plunder of contents; destroy or strip the interior of: as, the burglars gutted the store.
3. either the whole or a distinct division of that part of the alimentary canal of an animal which extends from the stomach to the anus; the intestinal canal, or any part of it; an intestine: as, the large gut; the small gut; the blind gut, or cæcum.
4. in the plural, the bowels; the whole mass formed by the natural convolutions of the intestinal canal in the abdomen.
5. in biology, the whole intestinal tube, alimentary canal, or digestive tract; the enteric tube, from mouth to anus. see enteron, stomodæum, proctodæum.
6. the whole digestive system; the viscera; the entrails in general: commonly in the plural.
7. the substance forming the case of the intestine; intestinal tissue or fiber: as, sheep's gut; calf-gut.
8. A preparation of the intestines of an animal used for various purposes, as for the strings of a violin, or, in angling, for the snood or leader to which the hook or lure is attached.
9. A narrow passage; particularly, a narrow channel of water; a strait; a long narrow inlet.

1. a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery
2. the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus
3. empty completely; destroy the inside of
4. a narrow channel or strait
5. remove the guts of