"zambuk" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Zam-Buk, a type of healing ointment originally manufactured in England, United Kingdom; further origin uncertain.",
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          "ref": "1957 April 14, David Burke, “He slept in a police cell: Oldest ambulance man looks back”, in The Sun-Herald, 2nd edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: John Fairfax and Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32, columns 1–2:",
          "text": "“C’mon ‘Zambuk,’ what’s keeping yer!” the old-time football crowds would yell when one over-eager barracker k.o.’d an opposition supporter. Spencer Middlemiss sat back in a chair at his Mascot home last week, and, surrounded by a pile of certificates, photographs and cuttings, proudly confessed that he was one of the original “Zambuks.”",
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          "ref": "1966 March 17, Marjorie Higgins, quotee, “And how is your first aid? Do you know what to do until the doctor comes?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, late edition, number 40,013, Sydney, N.S.W.: John Fairfax and Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, Women’s Section, page 8:",
          "text": "The Hospitaller's Clubs, who work for the Hospital of St. John, an op[h]thalmic hospital in Jerusalem, and the St. John Ambulance Brigade, they're the voluntary uniform body, the Zambuks on the football field and the women in white who look after fainting people in big crowds …",
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          "text": "When I came past the accident scene I couldn't believe it—the driver was walking around, though he was breathing a little huskily. As the ambulance by that time had arrived I told one of the zambucks.",
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          "ref": "2007, Michael O’Sullivan, “Another Sunday Morning”, in Easter at Tobruk, [Sydney, N.S.W.]: ReadHowYouWant, published 2008, →ISBN, part 2, page 59:",
          "text": "‘You’re still bleeding from that wound on the head. Tiger’ll put a dressing on it.’ / ‘Aw, call the Zambuck,’ he protested. / […] / ‘Zambuck’s the first aid man at the footy—you know, St John’s Ambulance. They’re called that ’cause of the ointment they carry.’",
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          "ref": "2009, Graeme Hunt, “Post-war Challenges”, in First to Care: 125 Years of the Order of St John in New Zealand 1885–2010, Auckland: Libro International; Wellington: Waddington Press for the Priory in New Zealand of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, →ISBN, image caption, page 182:",
          "text": "All Black lock Tiny White (born 1925) being taken from the field by zambuks in the fourth New Zealand–South Africa rugby test, Eden Park, Auckland, 1 September 1956.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2010, Alix Bosco [pseudonym; Greg McGee], chapter 47, in Slaughter Falls, [Sydney, N.S.W.]: ReadHowYouWant, →ISBN, pages 414–415:",
          "text": "We better tell them the shooting is over, otherwise the cops won't let the zambucks come up to get Cathy.",
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        "A first-aider, especially one from St. John Ambulance attending at a sports event."
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        "(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A first-aider, especially one from St. John Ambulance attending at a sports event."
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          "word": "Zambuk"
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          "text": "“C’mon ‘Zambuk,’ what’s keeping yer!” the old-time football crowds would yell when one over-eager barracker k.o.’d an opposition supporter. Spencer Middlemiss sat back in a chair at his Mascot home last week, and, surrounded by a pile of certificates, photographs and cuttings, proudly confessed that he was one of the original “Zambuks.”",
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          "text": "The Hospitaller's Clubs, who work for the Hospital of St. John, an op[h]thalmic hospital in Jerusalem, and the St. John Ambulance Brigade, they're the voluntary uniform body, the Zambuks on the football field and the women in white who look after fainting people in big crowds …",
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          "text": "When I came past the accident scene I couldn't believe it—the driver was walking around, though he was breathing a little huskily. As the ambulance by that time had arrived I told one of the zambucks.",
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          "text": "‘You’re still bleeding from that wound on the head. Tiger’ll put a dressing on it.’ / ‘Aw, call the Zambuck,’ he protested. / […] / ‘Zambuck’s the first aid man at the footy—you know, St John’s Ambulance. They’re called that ’cause of the ointment they carry.’",
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          "text": "All Black lock Tiny White (born 1925) being taken from the field by zambuks in the fourth New Zealand–South Africa rugby test, Eden Park, Auckland, 1 September 1956.",
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        },
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          "text": "We better tell them the shooting is over, otherwise the cops won't let the zambucks come up to get Cathy.",
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