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, published 2008, page 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.

   • 1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, pages 315, 317:

     Each of the trains is fully equipped with cars for travelling staffs of nurses and doctors, kitchens, and wards for stretcher cases, sitting-up and mental cases.

Translations

injured who needs a stretcher

• Finnish: paaripotilas

See also

• basket case