A consultant hired to adapt an existing script for use in film, theater, etc.

(informal) A psychiatrist.

(South Africa, obsolete, offensive) Synonym of witch doctor

(European history) A physician treating the bubonic plague, or employed simply to collect demographic and epidemiological data, especially one wearing protective clothing including goggles and a mask with a long bird's beak filled with aromatics to ward off the disease.

Trochilus polytmus; a red-billed streamertail; scissor-tail hummingbird; scissors tail hummingbird (hummingbird)

(anthropology) A doctor (shaman) in certain cultures who was a doctor by virtue of their magical paraphernalia and the techniques they learned, rather than from supernatural experiences such as dreams and visions.

(chiefly Southern US) A person who uses roots and other herbal remedies for healing.

present participle of play doctor

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of play doctor

simple past tense and past participle of play doctor