gut-shot

alternative gutshot · alternative gut shot

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of gut-shoot

alternative gutshot · alternative gut shot

1. not comparableHaving been shot in the gut.

   Alone and gut-shot, Eddie staggers to a church, seeking sanctuary and salvation, but collapses on the steps.

   2011, Adam Shand, Big Shots: Inside Melbourne's Gangland Wars, →ISBN, page iii

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   For instance, one writer who discussed tracking gut-shot deer talked about a kidney hit and compared it to the liver and stomach wound.

   2001, John Trout, Jr., Finding Wounded Deer: Tracking Deer Shot with Bow Or Gun, →ISBN, page 2

   The terrible screams of this gut-shot kid made you do a lot of thinking of things besides hunting for the road.

   2009, Harry Arthur Gant, I Saw Them Ride Away, →ISBN, page 39

2. not comparableExtremely dismayed or distressed.

   She still felt gut-shot with guilt.

   2008, Ilsa Evans, Broken - Volume 1, →ISBN

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   What he liked, his mother absolutely wouldn't like, and since it had been his bright idea for Conchita to come over so that she might finally meet his mother, an idea that, as soon as it was broached, developed an alarming weight of regret, regret so heavy he found himself unable to put the phone back in the cradle and instead dropped it on the floor, where it twirled and twirled on its coily black cord, and now that she was standing in his mother's kitchen looking not at all like a ten-dollar hooker but more like a two-dollar one, Sonny felt gut-shot, or maybe run over by a bus.

   2003, Melinda Haynes, Willem's Field: A Novel, →ISBN, page 281

   Jude felt gut-shot in a way he couldn't explain.

   2014, Caris Roane, Embrace the Night

plural gut-shots · alternative gutshot · alternative gut shot

1. alternativeAlternative form of gut shot.

   He showed her how to throw punches: hooks, jabs, head-shots, gut-shots.

   2013, Duncan Staff, The Lost Boy: The Definitive Story of the Moors Murders, →ISBN, page 71

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   The stocky Apache released his burden and sank to his knees, his head bending forward and thrusting into the sand as the pain from the gut-shots began to course through his body.

   2012, Frederick H. Cooper, Fronteras, →ISBN, page 132

   When he ran dry, he switched to a high-velocity handgun. Gut-shots, chest-shots.

   2013, Michael Carroll, The Cold Light of Day, →ISBN