blood-and-guts

1. 1.

   marked by great zeal or violence

   “real blood-and-guts fiction”

   “blood-and-guts football”

   Similarintense

   colloquialism

Questions about blood-and-guts

What does blood-and-guts mean?

blood-and-guts means "marked by great zeal or violence".

How many syllables are in blood-and-guts?

blood-and-guts has 3 syllables and divides as bloo-d-and--guts under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is blood-and-guts a common word?

blood-and-guts is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.