gut shot

Stomach bullet injury

A gut shot is a gunshot wound to the abdomen—historically feared because it meant a slow, agonizing death rather than a quick one.

In hunting, a gut shot is a poor hit that wounds the animal without killing it cleanly.

In poker, a gut shot (or gutshot) is an inside straight draw, needing one specific card to complete the hand: I was drawing to a gut shot and missed.

wound

abdominal

Of the belly region

penetrating · bullet · stabbing · visceral · perforation · hemorrhage · surgery · emergency · critical · painful

poker

inside straight

Four cards with gap

  • drawCreate with pencil
  • outsMeans of escape
  • oddsLikelihood expressed numerically

longshot · underdog · hold'em · flop · turn · river · pot odds · gamble · risk · chance

Categories
Opposites
lethality and suffering

gut shotclean kill

Death without suffering

headshot · kill shot · instant kill · head shot · quick death

shooting skill/outcome

gut shotmoney shot

Spectacular payoff scene

miss

outcome for target

gut shotinstant death

Dying without delay

clean kill · uninjured · grazed

Family

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