corpsman meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

corpsman

noun

/ˈkɔː(ɹ)mən/ · /ˈkɔː(ɹ)zmən/

Etymology From corps + -man.

The corpsman prescribed Motrin to the sick marine for his symptoms.
“I love talking on the phone!” said Kate, a college student and corpsman in the Navy Reserve. “If someone’s like, ‘Do you want to text?’ ‘No! Call me. I want to hear your voice.’”2025 September 6, Catherine Pearson, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

Government, Military, Politics, War US, Obsolete An enlisted person in the U.S. Army who works as a field medic.