stretcher case

English

Noun

stretcher case (plural stretcher cases)

  1. An injured person who needs to be carried on a stretcher.
    • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 180:
      We filled two cars with stretcher cases as they came up from the cellar of the post and as I shut the door of the second car and fastened it I felt the rain on my face turn to snow.

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