gut = "gut feeling"

[Jonathan Lighter]

A specialization of HDAS _gut_, 2.c., partly by shortening, partly through "listen to your gut":

  2007 _Fox NewsWeekend Report_ (FNC-TV) (Nov. 3):  Gloria, what's your gut on how all this will turn out?

  JL

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