gut-shoot
See also: gutshoot and gut shoot
English
Alternative forms
- gut shoot
- gutshoot
Etymology
gut + shoot
Verb
gut-shoot (third-person singular simple present gut-shoots, present participle gut-shooting, simple past and past participle gut-shot)
- (transitive) To shoot in the gut with a firearm.
- 1997, Patrick Durkin, The Deer Hunters:
- In the case above, Bruce had gut-shot the buck.
- 2000, Julia Hanlon, Mine for All Time, →ISBN, page 48:
- Of all the fine men I've labored to save, it had to be you who survives being gut-shot.
- 2004, Louis L'Amour, Comstock Lode, →ISBN:
- I put one of them down—gut-shot him—and they pulled out again.
- 2010, Monte Burch, The Complete Jerky Book, →ISBN, page 38:
- If the animal has been gut-shot, however, then you will have a problem.
- 2014, William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone, Gut-Shot, →ISBN, page 318:
- 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.
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