ambulance
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- noun
- /ˈæmbjʊləns/
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ambulancia
- The injured player was transported to the hospital in an ambulance after the match.
- call an ambulance
- ambulance to the hospital
- an ambulance service
Like I'll get rushed in from the ambulance to a room.
- Like I'll get rushed in from the ambulance to a room.
- We're going to call the ambulance and see what is going on.
- We had the video of the ambulance driving across the river.
- She's like, well, my back hurts, so I need an ambulance here immediately.
- And so I came to in the ambulance.
- And I start seeing some ambulances pull up.
- If you go home and you pull in your driveway and there's an ambulance there, how do you feel?
- You know, everything went quiet and you could only hear police cars and and ambulance sirens.
- And one time she fell down the stairs, not to the point where like, it was an ambulance situation.
- That's why they use ambulances to transport terrorists.
- I remember saying I need an ambulance and a Ribena.
- Because that's the ambulance and it's the police.
- But what I'm saying is this, a lot of ambulance drivers is gay men.
Examples
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Call the ambulance.
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The patient was then transported by ambulance to the ED and briefly hospitalized for four days.
Academic text (2017) -
We're going to call the ambulance and see what is going on.
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Hey, call the ambulance, man.
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I was in the back seat about to call the ambulance because I was crying so hard.
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I'll call you an ambulance, okay?
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I'm going to stay with the girl until the ambulance comes.
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After what seemed like an eternity, the ambulance finally arrived at the remote beach.
Academic text (2011) -
She waited for an ambulance for nearly three hours.
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Call an ambulance!
Idioms
- Informal
A late action that deals with a problem only after it has happened
Compounds
- Offensive
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A lawyer who looks for accident victims and urges them to sue for their own gain
- Slang
Contacting people hurt in accidents to get them as clients for a lawyer, often seen as dishonest
- Slang
A practice of rushing to contact people after accidents to get clients, often seen as unfair
- Offensive
A lawyer who goes to accidents or emergencies to find clients for injury cases
How Urgent
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Ambulance comes from the old Latin word ambulare, which means 'to walk' or 'move' and is the same root as the English word amble. It originally meant a hospital that could move, so today an ambulance is a vehicle that moves sick or injured people to get them help.