evacuator

[ ih-vak-yoo-ey-ter ]

noun

1. a person or thing that evacuates.
2. Medicine/Medical. an instrument for removing impacted feces from the rectum.

Word History and Origins

Origin of evacuator¹

First recorded in 1605–15; evacuate + -or ²

Example Sentences

A "combat emplacement evacuator" is a splendidly resonant euphemism for a shovel, but somehow it has never caught on.

From Time Magazine Archive

The evacuator that soils its back cannot have inspired the hermit living in cleanly retirement inside its globe; the occupant of the asparagus-berry did not advise the third to live in the open and wander like an acrobat through the leafage.

From Project Gutenberg

Let us be indulgent to the evacuator nor disparage his eccentric wardrobe.

From Project Gutenberg