gut-shoot

present singular third person gut-shoots · participle present gut-shooting · participle past gut-shot · past gut-shot · alternative gut shoot · alternative gutshoot

1. transitiveTo shoot in the gut with a firearm.

   In the case above, Bruce had gut-shot the buck.

   1997, Patrick Durkin, The Deer Hunters

   4 more examples

   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

   I put one of them down—gut-shot him—and they pulled out again.

   2004, Louis L'Amour, Comstock Lode, →ISBN

   If the animal has been gut-shot, however, then you will have a problem.

   2010, Monte Burch, The Complete Jerky Book, →ISBN, page 38

   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