Meaning

1 senses
  1. (imperative, slang)To show courage and hide one's apprehension.

Origin

From gut + up, influenced by expressions like man up and shut up. Compare guts (“courage”)

From gut + up, influenced by expressions like man up and shut up. Compare guts (“courage”).

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Forms

guts up, gutting up, gutted up, gutted up
Base formgut up · to gut up
3rd person singularguts up
Present participlegutting up
Past simplegutted up
Past participlegutted up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygut up
he, she, itguts up

Past simpleLesson

all personsgutted up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gutted up
he, she, ithas gutted up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gut up

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

4 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedshut up

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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