gutses

guts out

To endure or tolerate some task or activity despite pain, hardships, or unpleasant conditions. Used especially in reference to sports. A noun or pronoun can be used between "guts" and "out." I know your legs are sore, but we need you to guts it out for the last few minutes of the game. I'm surprised the captain gutsed out the entire season with that injury. I gutsed it out for several days, but when my fever wouldn't go away, I finally took a sick day and went to the doctor.

See also: gut, out

guzzle-guts

slang Someone apt to consume large quantities of alcohol. Geez, if I go to the bar again this week, I'm gonna look like a real guzzle-guts! Yeah, I drink sometimes, but I'm no guzzle-guts. I just have a glass of wine every so often. I used to be a real guzzle-guts and spent all of my time in bars, but that was before I went to rehab.

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guzzle-guts

n. a drunkard; a heavy drinker. Old guzzle-guts here would like another drink.

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