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sawbones

/saw-bohnz/US // ˈsɔˌboʊnz //UK // (ˈsɔːˌbəʊnz) //

锯骨,锯齿,锯齿型,锯齿状

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural saw·bones, saw·bones·es.Slang.

    • : a surgeon or physician.

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Examples

  • For many years he had carried in his body a Spanish bullet which the sawbones of his guerrilla band had been unable to extract.

  • But I kin go to Bullhide for the sawbones in it, and bring him back, too.

  • The mediocre sawbones can always take a shop, go to India, marry a sickly widow, or invent a patent medicine.

  • Well, he's got an ugly hole in him, and it's hard hunting—the sawbones will have to find the lead.

  • They had grudgingly allowed Clancey, the family sawbones, to call in a psychologist friend, Philip Warwick.