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lobotomist

lobotomist noun: someone who performs lobotomies.

Noun

lobotomist (plural lobotomists)

  1. (rare) Someone who performs lobotomies.
    • I can imagine a lobotomist saying, "Do you want your daughter dead or lobotomized?"1988 December 2, Timothy Beneke, “The Case Against Therapy”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2021
    • Freeman's career as a lobotomist was fairing as badly in the eye of the medical profession as the procedure was.2010, Mary de Young, Madness: An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment, page 232

Forms of lobotomist

plurallobotomists

Origin of lobotomist

From lobotomy + -ist.

Questions about lobotomist

What does lobotomist mean?
Lobotomist means someone who performs lobotomies.
What part of speech is lobotomist?
Lobotomist is a noun.
What is the plural of lobotomist?
The plural of lobotomist is lobotomists.

Words near lobotomist in the dictionary

  1. lobotomisation
  2. lobotomise
  3. lobotomised
  4. lobotomises
  5. lobotomising
  6. lobotomist
  7. lobotomists
  8. lobotomite
  9. lobotomites
  10. lobotomization
  11. lobotomize

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