Definition of "innards" []

• Informal Internal bodily organs; viscera. (noun-plural)
• Informal The inner parts, as of a machine. (noun-plural)

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.

• "At about 7 or 8 a.m. the previously prepared produce, with select innards, is placed on the scorching stones in an oversized cast aluminum casserole with water, over which is placed an iron grate sufficiently forged to hold the weight of the quartered meat, including head and organs … either plain, or enchilada."
• "From the looks of this teardown, the bulk of iPhone's slender innards is the battery."
• "This protects its innards from the weather and makes for an unusually reliable gun."