Definition of "sawbones" []

• Slang A physician, especially a surgeon. (noun)

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• "My regular sawbones is out of town, so I'm seeing someone new."
• "The sawbones was a plump little cove with gooseberry eyes and trailing whiskers who prodded my injury and pronounced it ugly, but seemed to think I ought to be able to hobble."
• "'I thought everybody know'd as a sawbones was a surgeon.'"