a heavy fall. Usually in the phrase 'come a gutser'. Variants include 'gutzer' and 'gusta' AUSTRALIA, 1918.►come a gutserto come undone; to fail miserably AUSTRALIA, 1918
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come a gutser
1. slang To fall down. Primarily heard in Australia. These shoes are too big and caused me to come a gutser as I was walking down the street.
2. slang To fail. Primarily heard in Australia. Once heralded as a future star of the tech world, Shane came a gutser when his product proved to be a dud.
come a gutser
suffer a failure or defeat. informal
Gutser (also spelled gutzer ) is explained in Fraser and Gibbons'Soldier and Sailor Words ( 1925 ) as ‘pre-war slang, and an old term among Scottish boys for falling flat on the water in diving, instead of making a clean header’. In air-force slang come (or fetch) a gutser meant ‘crash’.