Usually means: Historical slang for a surgeon.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word sawbones:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. sawbones: Merriam-Webster
  2. sawbones: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sawbones: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sawbones: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sawbones: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sawbones, sawbones: Wordnik
  7. sawbones: Wiktionary
  8. sawbones: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sawbones: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sawbones: Dictionary.com
  11. Sawbones (film), Sawbones (podcast), Sawbones: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Sawbones: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sawbones: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. sawbones: Rhymezone
  15. Sawbones: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. sawbones: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sawbones: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. sawbones: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sawbones: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sawbones: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. Sawbones: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sawbones: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sawboneses as well.)

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noun:  (slang) A surgeon.

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