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gut-shoot en · VERB

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Etymology

From gut + shoot.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To shoot in the gut with a firearm.
   • I put one of them down—gut-shot him—and they pulled out again. 2004, Louis L'Amour, Comstock Lode, →ISBN:
   • Of all the fine men I've labored to save, it had to be you who survives being gut-shot. 2000, Julia Hanlon, Mine for All Time, →ISBN, page 48:
   • If it comes down to it, let McCord get real close and then gut-shoot him with the 10-gauge, one barrel and then t'other. 2014, William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Gut-Shot, →ISBN, page 318:
   • If the animal has been gut-shot, however, then you will have a problem. 2010, Monte Burch, The Complete Jerky Book, →ISBN, page 38:
   • In the case above, Bruce had gut-shot the buck. 1997, Patrick Durkin, The Deer Hunters:

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