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    [Noun]  | "saw*bones" | \ ˈsȯ-ˌbōnz \


    1: physician, surgeon


    Origin: 1837 ;

    [Noun]  | "sawbones" 


    1: a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders;


      * e.g., " ... a real old-timer who remembers when you could expect a sawbones to make a house call "





     [ "sawbones" ]

    1: The quack. The croaker. The doc.

      * e.g.,  ... I had to go to the sawbones and get my toe splinted. 

     [ "Sawbones" ]

    1: A basement bar in Caldwell New Jersey that is run by a guy who is generally so hammered, he actually thinks he owns a real bar.

      * e.g.,  ... Are you going to stop by Sawbones on your way home? Ummm I dont't know...that place is depressing and the guy who runs it tells you the same stories over and over again. 

     [ "Sawbones" ]

    1: An informal term for a surgeon or doctor.

      * e.g.,  ... "I thought everybody know'd as a Sawbones was a surgeon."....The Pickwick Papers 1837. 

     [ "Sawbones" ]

    1: A old fashon way to say the doctor.

      * e.g.,  ... She over at the sawbones. 


     [ "Sawbones" ]

    2: Because it happend that they choped some legs off and such things.

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