Definitions for medevac

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medevac med·e·vac

Spelling: [med-uh-vak]

IPA: /ˈmɛd əˌvæk/

Medevac is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in medevac (acdeemv).

Definitions for medevac

noun

1. a helicopter for evacuating the wounded from a battlefield.
2. an ambulance or other vehicle equipped for emergency transport of medical patients.
3. any of the trained personnel transporting or otherwise tending to the sick or wounded in a medevac.

verb (used with object)

1. to transport (sick or wounded persons) by medevac.

Origin of medevac

1965-70, Americanism; med(ical) evac(uation); presumably by ellipsis from medevac helicopter

Examples for medevac

Who can forget Lindsey Vonn dangling from a medevac helicopter after her 2013 season-ending crash?

He has deployed to Iraq twice and completed a tour in Afghanistan as a medevac pilot-in-command and air mission commander.

As the medics came to administer aid, Kurth grabbed a radio and ordered a medevac helicopter.

My team would have dragged me out and guarded my body until the medevac arrived to carry me to the morgue.

Within minutes the medevac helicopter flew him to the nearby surgical center at Forward Operating Base Solerno.

Maj. Mary Hegar flew medevac missions to rescue wounded soldiers.