Definitions for medevacs

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medevacs med·e·vac

Spelling: [med-uh-vak]

IPA: /ˈmɛd əˌvæk/

Medevacs is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 248 anagrams from letters in medevacs (acdeemsv).

Definitions for medevacs

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 medevacs

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

Examples for medevacs

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

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

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

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

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

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