meatball surgery
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined or popularised by Richard Hooker in the novel MASH (1968). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]meatball surgery (usually uncountable, plural meatball surgeries)
- (surgery, military, colloquial) Surgery performed rapidly in a military field hospital to stabilize the patient as quickly as possible.