WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
med•e•vac
(med′ə vak′),USA pronunciation n., v., -vacked, -vack•ing.
n.
v.t.
n.
- a helicopter for evacuating the wounded from a battlefield.
- Medicinean ambulance or other vehicle equipped for emergency transport of medical patients.
- any of the trained personnel transporting or otherwise tending to the sick or wounded in a medevac.
v.t.
- to transport (sick or wounded persons) by medevac.
- 1965–70, American; med(ical) evac(uation); presumably by ellipsis from medevac helicopter
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