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come a gutser en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From falling on ones gut, or belly.

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang) To do a belly flop; to fall flat on one's face.
   • “Come off it, skipper. There's nobody to miss us if this scow comes a gutser. We're expendable, even more so than the average Rim Runner officer. And that's saying plenty.” 2012, A. Bertram Chandler, Ride the Star Winds, →ISBN:
   • Slippery as a butcher's apron it is, and I comes a gutser twice before I gets down to the stag. 1964, Ron Helmer, Stag Party, page 82:
   • You took off up Main Street past the church, jumped the gutter, two cars and a four-foot fence, and finally come a gutser in the gully below the cop station. 2001, Anita Bell, Crystal Coffin, →ISBN, page 33:
   • Until he tripped again and came a gutser. This time he stayed down. 2013, Glyn Parry, Sad Boys, →ISBN:
2. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang) To fail miserably; to make a huge mistake; to fall flat on one's face.
   • Unless we come a gutser, we won't get near them. 2016, Art Collins, In The Outback, →ISBN:
   • Well, where you all come a gutser is, over here, we think we're born to rule YOU. 2011, Alan Ramsay, A Matter of Opinion, →ISBN, page 90:
   • Ole Fritz keeps on tryin' ter feel our possies at night with small patrols, an' they tried ter raid us two nights ago, but came a gutser, 'coz we hopped out an' met 'em, an' they put their 'ands up. 1919, C. Hampton Thorp, A Handful of Ausseys, page 288:
   • The Government has come a gutser there, and it will come a gutser in the health area when it tries to put the user-pays principle in operation. 1982, New Zealand Parliament House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 443, page 439:

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Relateds

come a smeller · come a cropper