gutshot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of gutshoot
noun
Alternative form of gut-shot.
adj
Alternative form of gut-shot.
adj
Alternative form of gut-shot.
Example Sentences
- "A 22-year-old soldier with thoracic gutshot injury and subsequent right-sided pneumonectomy and partial left-sided lung resection went into critical respiratory failure."
- "But we never got to take the shot I'd been trained to take, that beautiful single shot that takes out a man's head, or the gutshot—Chris Kyle's favorite—that allows him to bleed out and die a little slower, maybe think about all the ways he might have lived a different and better life."
- "Despite the fact that we still don't know if I'll survive because of the gutshot, I still feel the trip was worth it."
- "For the first group, hunting is the gutshot deer gasping to death while its killer has given up pursuit, the woman in Maine shot in her own backyard by a hunter who thought her brown coat and white mittens meant a deer, and hoarse, bloodthirsty varmint hunters "blazing" away"
- "He never got used to the sight of elk with broken hips, missing legs and hooves, damaged backs, and gutshot skeletons that trailed in for the security and protection of his ranch."
- "We look like a couple of gutshot iguanas!"