million-dollar wound
US Military slang
noun
A wound severe enough to require a soldier's return home to convalesce.
Origin
Early 20th century.
- cryptopentamerous
- cryptophyte
- cryptophytic
- cryptopine
- cryptoporticus
- cryptorchid
- cryptorchidism
- cryptorchism
- cryptosporidial
- cryptosporidiosis
- cryptosporidium
- cryptostoma
- cryptosystem
- cryptous
- cryptovolcanic
- cryptoxanthin
- cryptozoa
- cryptozoic
- cryptozoological
- cryptozoologist
- cryptozoology
- cryptozoon
- cryptozoön
- cryptozygous
- cry someone/thing up (or down)