noun
plural guts
guts [plural]
the internal organs of an animal
b informal :the inside parts of something
c informal :the most important parts of something
guts [plural] informal :courage
The expression no guts, no glory is sometimes used in informal U.S. English to mean that if you do not have courage, you will never achieve success and fame.
[count] informal - used to talk about feelings, ideas, etc., that come from your emotions and from what seems true or right rather than from logic or reason
[count] informal :a person's stomach or the part of the body that contains the stomach :belly
[count] :intestine
[noncount] :catgut
blood and guts
violent acts or images
bust a gut
also bust your gut
informal
to work or try extremely hard
US :to laugh in an uncontrolled way
hate someone's guts
informal :to hate or dislike someone very much
spill your guts
informal :to tell your secrets or private feelings to another person
adjective
always used before a noun
relating to or based on emotions :not based on logic or reason
affecting people's emotions
verb
guts; gutted; gutting
[+ obj] to remove the internal organs from (a fish or an animal)
to destroy the inside of (a structure)
to destroy the power of (something) :to make (something) no longer effective
US