English Explanatory Dictionary

meatball surgery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Surgery performed rapidly in a military field hospital to stabilize the patient as quickly as possible.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see meatball, surgery.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

meatball surgery meatball surgeries

Etymology

Coined or popularised by Richard Hooker in the novel MASH (1968).

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