"rocket surgeon" meaning in English

See rocket surgeon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: rocket surgeons [plural]
Etymology: Blend of rocket scientist + brain surgeon, as both are commonly used in such phrases as "you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand it". Etymology templates: {{blend|en|rocket scientist|brain surgeon}} Blend of rocket scientist + brain surgeon Head templates: {{en-noun}} rocket surgeon (plural rocket surgeons)
  1. (humorous) Synonym of rocket scientist (“someone qualified to understand or handle that which is overly complex, detailed or confusing”) Tags: humorous Categories (topical): People Synonyms: rocket scientist [synonym, synonym-of] Related terms: rocket surgery
    Sense id: en-rocket_surgeon-en-noun-ooVey-r4 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for rocket surgeon meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rocket scientist",
        "3": "brain surgeon"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of rocket scientist + brain surgeon",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of rocket scientist + brain surgeon, as both are commonly used in such phrases as \"you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand it\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rocket surgeons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rocket surgeon (plural rocket surgeons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Chris Vander Mey, “How to measure greatness”, in Shipping Greatness, O'Reilly Media, page 89",
          "text": "At this point you may be thinking, “I know all about goals. I know to make them S.M.A.R.T.” What's S.M.A.R.T? Some rocket surgeon a while back came up with the notion that goals should be specific, measurable, attainable, reasonable, and time-based.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of rocket scientist (“someone qualified to understand or handle that which is overly complex, detailed or confusing”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-rocket_surgeon-en-noun-ooVey-r4",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "rocket scientist",
          "rocket scientist#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) Synonym of rocket scientist (“someone qualified to understand or handle that which is overly complex, detailed or confusing”)"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "rocket surgery"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "someone qualified to understand or handle that which is overly complex, detailed or confusing",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "rocket scientist"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rocket surgeon"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rocket scientist",
        "3": "brain surgeon"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of rocket scientist + brain surgeon",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of rocket scientist + brain surgeon, as both are commonly used in such phrases as \"you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand it\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rocket surgeons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rocket surgeon (plural rocket surgeons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "rocket surgery"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Chris Vander Mey, “How to measure greatness”, in Shipping Greatness, O'Reilly Media, page 89",
          "text": "At this point you may be thinking, “I know all about goals. I know to make them S.M.A.R.T.” What's S.M.A.R.T? Some rocket surgeon a while back came up with the notion that goals should be specific, measurable, attainable, reasonable, and time-based.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of rocket scientist (“someone qualified to understand or handle that which is overly complex, detailed or confusing”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "rocket scientist",
          "rocket scientist#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) Synonym of rocket scientist (“someone qualified to understand or handle that which is overly complex, detailed or confusing”)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "someone qualified to understand or handle that which is overly complex, detailed or confusing",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "rocket scientist"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "rocket surgeon"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.