Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

meatball surgery

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English

Syllables
meat-bal-l -surgery
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Surgery performed rapidly in a military field hospital to stabilize the patient as quickly as possible.

Colloquial; Uncountable

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see meatball, surgery.

Uncountable

Etymology

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

meatball surgeries (plural)

Questions

What does meatball surgery mean?
Surgery performed rapidly in a military field hospital to stabilize the patient as quickly as possible.
Where does meatball surgery come from?
Coined or popularised by Richard Hooker in the novel MASH (1968).

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