zambuck

Noun

zambuk (plural zambuks)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A first-aider, especially one from St. John Ambulance attending at a sports event.
   • “C’mon ‘Zambuk,’ what’s keeping yer!” the old-time football crowds would yell when one over-eager barracker k.o.’d an opposition supporter. Spencer Middlemiss sat back in a chair at his Mascot home last week, and, surrounded by a pile of certificates, photographs and cuttings, proudly confessed...1957 April 14, David Burke, “He slept in a police cell: Oldest ambulance man looks back”, in The Sun-Herald, 2nd edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: John Fairfax and Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32, columns 1–2