1. a doctor or surgeon
Usage: informal; humorous

Examples

• The old sawbones stitched up my wound in no time.
• We need to get you to a sawbones right away.
• The town’s only sawbones was called to the accident scene.
• My grandfather always called his doctor ‘sawbones.’
• The sawbones said I’d be fine after a few days of rest.
• Don’t worry, the sawbones knows what he’s doing.