gut

noun7

1. •
   the long inside part of the body, below the stomach, where eaten food is broken down
2. •
   (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.

   • You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.
3. •
   A person's emotional, visceral self.

   • I have a funny feeling in my gut.
4. •
   The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
5. •
   (informal) A class that is not demanding or challenging.

   • You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
6. •
   A narrow channel, passage, or stream of water. (Compare gote.)

   • There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting. — 1887
7. •
   The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.

verb3

1. •
   To eviscerate.

   • The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
   • The lioness gutted her prey.
2. •
   To remove or destroy the most important parts of.

   • Fire gutted the building.
   • Congress gutted the welfare bill.
3. •
   To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).

   • They were gutted by the court's decision.

adjective2

1. •
   Instinctive.
2. •
   Made of gut.

   • a violin with gut strings

noun1

1. •
   Initialism of grand unification theory or grand unified theory.