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BLOOD-AND-GUTS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blood-and-guts mean?
• BLOOD-AND-GUTS (adjective)
The adjective BLOOD-AND-GUTS has 1 sense:
1. marked by great zeal or violence
Familiarity information: BLOOD-AND-GUTS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by great zeal or violence
Context example:
blood-and-guts football
Similar:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
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