What is "gutshot"

Usage examples of "gutshot".

It looked as though he were gutshot but it might have lodged in the muscle.

It would continue over Gutshot, angling slightly downward over the ocean that hemmed in the tiny town and spaceport against the towering mountains.

The radar at Gutshot space base undoubtedly had picked up the flier and would track it on its course across the water, but at its low altitude, the base would soon lose contact with it.

Would you believe it, this is the only ship between Gutshot and End of Nothing.

Once the initial shock of Gutshot wore off, I became somewhat accustomed to it.

For years he had ferried alien pilgrims between Gutshot and End of Nothing, and all the time, out of his loneliness that cried out for humanness, his contempt and horror of his passengers had grown until it now was tightly woven into the fabric of his life.

Thus, Gutshot is the designation of both the planet and the colony surrounding the port, while End of Nothing means both the settlement and planet, as you choose.

I think it would be best to explain that you had to run for the ship at Gutshot and somehow lost the luggage.

But he felt that something was different, that he was not in Gutshot, nor in the ship.

To get off this planet, he would have to return to Gutshot and, within the foreseeable future, that was the last thing he wanted to do.

When he had fled Gutshot, he had been looking for sanctuary of any kind, and here he had found a better sanctuary than he had thought possible.

How it could crack through the door at any minute and drag me out, like a dead fish on a gaff, drop me on the floor like a gutshot squirrel.

The one who was gutshot was curled up on the floor, unconscious and in shock.

Then Martin Link was screaming loud at Iona, gutshot, flopping about on the floor while Longarm dove headfirst at the sofa, grabbing his six-gun as he rolled over the back and landed back on his feet in better shape to take charge again.