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Sawbones

Sawbones \Saw"bones`\, n. A nickname for a surgeon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sawbones

"surgeon," 1837, slang, from verbal phrase; see saw (v.) + bone (n.).

Wiktionary
sawbones

n. (context slang English) A surgeon.

WordNet
sawbones

n. a physician who specializes in surgery [syn: surgeon, operating surgeon]

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Sawbones

Sawbones may refer to:

  • Sawbones (aircraft), an unlimited racing aircraft converted from a North American P-51 Mustang
  • Sawbones, an artificial bone developed by Pacific Research Laboratories
  • Sawbones, a slang term for Surgeon

Usage examples of "sawbones".

Get the leukocytes and the cytoplasms in their right places, and anyone can be a sawbones!

The chair had served him for a decade before the damned sawbones and his sister had browbeaten him into using an airborne deathbed.

Hutton brought a brisk sawbones who peered and prodded at my stitches, dosed me with jalup, refused my demand for brandy to take away the taste, but agreed that I might have a rump steak instead of the beef tea which they'd been spooning into me in my unconscious state.

So, sure, he'd bump off the sawbones as soon as the job was done, but that wouldn't help.

Reiterating his request to Sylvester to stop funning, he added a strongly worded protest against the impropriety of his chasing all over the country after a mere sawbones.