/med"euh vak'/ , n. , v. , medevacked, medevacking .
n.
1. a helicopter for evacuating the wounded from a battlefield.
2. an ambulance or other vehicle equipped for emergency transport of medical patients.
3. any of the trained personnel transporting or otherwise tending to the sick or wounded in a medevac.
v.t.
4. to transport (sick or wounded persons) by medevac.
Also, Medevac, medivac .
[ 1965-70, Amer.; med ( ical ) evac ( uation ); presumably by ellipsis from medevac helicopter ]