"meatball surgery" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: meatball surgeries [plural]
Etymology: Coined or popularised by Richard Hooker in the novel MASH (1968). Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} meatball surgery (usually uncountable, plural meatball surgeries)
  1. (surgery, military, colloquial) Surgery performed rapidly in a military field hospital to stabilize the patient as quickly as possible. Tags: colloquial, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Military, Surgery Hypernyms: surgery
    Sense id: en-meatball_surgery-en-noun-Gc6ESUq1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: government, medicine, military, politics, sciences, surgery, war

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