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gut

(gət)

1. n. the belly; the intestines. Tom poked Bill right in the gut.

2. mod. basic; fundamental. We are not dealing with what I would call one of the gut matters of the day.

3. mod. [of a college or high school course] easy. I won’t take anymore gut economics courses. Even those are hard.

4. n. an easy course in school. That course is a gut.

See:

• a gut feeling
• a gut reaction
• a gut-bucket
• a misery guts
• beer belly
• beer gut
• blood and guts
• blubber gut
• blubber guts
• bust a gut
• bust a gut to do something
• get enough nerve up
• go with gut
• gut
• gut check
• gut factor
• gut feeling
• gut instinct
• gut it out
• gut reaction
• gut reaction to something
• gut-bucket
• guts
• gut-wrenching
• guzzle-guts
• hate guts
• hate someone’s guts
• hate someone's guts
• have guts for garters
• have the guts
• have the guts (to do something)
• kick in the guts
• misery guts
• my gut tells me
• no guts, no glory
• puke (one's) guts out
• slog guts out
• spew guts
• spew one’s guts
• spew one’s guts out
• spill guts
• spill one’s guts
• spill one’s guts on someone
• spill one’s guts to someone
• split a gut
• sweat blood
• tub of guts
• tub of lard
• yell head off
• yell one’s guts out
• yell one’s head off