meatball surgery
nounEtymology Coined or popularised by Richard Hooker in the novel MASH (1968).
1
Government, Medicine, Military, Politics, Sciences, Surgery, War Colloquial, Usually Surgery performed rapidly in a military field hospital to stabilize the patient as quickly as possible.
2
Usually Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see meatball, surgery.
- Hypernyms
- surgery