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Definition of "blood-and-guts" [blood-and-guts]

  • Depicting or marked by great violence or zeal: a blood-and-guts book; blood-and-guts competition. (adjective)
  • Dealing with fundamental concerns: blood-and-guts issues. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "blood-and-guts" in a sentence
  • "Brodie's cases tend to dwell as much on mysteries of the heart as on the usual blood-and-guts."
  • "They may love their blood-and-guts stories but they are also sentimental."
  • "As a work of old-school operational history—its focus is not on the blood-and-guts of the front but on rear-echelon command decisions and the movements of armies and divisions—"Normandy Crucible" is satisfactory."
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