buckshee

1. (military slang) A minor wound that necessitates the evacuation of a soldier from the combat zone for medical treatment.Examples: "Clearly the preferred wound, it ranked in seriousness between a 'buckshee' or 'baksheesh', a slight wound that merely took a man out of the line for a short time, and a 'N.Z. smack', which meant being invalided back to New Zealand, usually disabled for life."; "Ted Mostyn, for example; he's only eighteen, and he's back with two buckshees (wounds) already."; "As they went down the sap, 'Frank led the way...explaining to all and sundry "Old Kips got a buckshee"."slang