noun
- plural of sawbones; doctors or surgeons
Usage: informal; humorous
Examples
- The old-timers still called the hospital staff sawboneses.
- Those sawboneses worked through the night to save lives.
- The frontier town had two sawboneses serving the whole county.
- Even the best sawboneses couldn’t help him now.
- The sawboneses gathered for their weekly medical conference.