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n. (context idiomatic English) A nickname for surgery that is meant to be performed rapidly to stabilize the patient as quickly as possible.
Usage examples of "meatball surgery".
By God, even this military boot cleaner was good after six hours of meatball surgery.
The seriously hurt were out of their misery, dead and buried, either from the wounds they received in battle, or from the meatball surgery trying to save them.
Of healing he knew nothing, except for the rough meatball surgery that might prove necessary on the battlefield-and this did not look like a case of need for cauterizing wounds.
Of healing he knew nothing, except for the rough meatball surgery that might prove necessary on the battlefieldand this did not look like a case of need for cauterizing wounds.
Without most of the tools she had trained with in the predark days, the woman had only her bare hands to perform meatball surgery.