Usually means: Sudden, devastating emotional or physical blow.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (gut punch)

noun:  (literally) A hard hit to the stomach.
noun:  (figurative) Something that shocks and upsets someone to the degree that it causes the recipient to feel physically affected.

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