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St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere proper noun: a low-quality hospital to which patients rejected from better hospitals are referred.

Proper noun

St. Elsewhere

  1. A low-quality hospital to which patients rejected from better hospitals are referred.
    • I am not at work today because I am supposedly recovering from minor surgery. I'm a little old to be asking my mother for a ride to the hospital, and since this surgery involved several trips to various St. Elsewhere types, it required a time commitment I could not very well ask of even my closest...1987 February 8, Robert Storen, “On Being Cozy with Mister Right”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 29, page 12

Questions about St. Elsewhere

What does St. Elsewhere mean?
St. Elsewhere means a low-quality hospital to which patients rejected from better hospitals are referred.
What part of speech is St. Elsewhere?
St. Elsewhere is a proper noun.

Words near St. Elsewhere in the dictionary

  1. St. Domingue
  2. St. Elmo's fire
  3. St. Elmo's fires
  4. St. Elmo's light
  5. St. Elmo's lights
  6. St. Elsewhere
  7. St. Felix
  8. St. Fiden
  9. St. Francis
  10. St. Francis County
  11. St. Francisville

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