pros from dover

An American slang term for outside consultants who are brought into a business to troubleshoot and solve problems. The term comes from the 1968 book M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker. In the book, the character Hawkeye is described as using the guise of being the pro from Dover to obtain free entrance to golf courses:

"Hawkeye would walk confidently into a pro shop, smile, comment upon the nice condition of the course, explain that he was just passing through and that he was Joe, Dave or Jack Somebody, the pro from Dover. This resulted, about eight times out of ten, in an invitation to play for free. If forced into conversation, he became the pro from Dover, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, England, Ohio, Delaware, Tennessee, or Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, whichever seemed safest."

Later on in the book, when Hawkeye and fellow surgeon Trapper are called from Korea to Tokyo to perform surgery on a congressman's son, the following exchange takes place:

"'All right,' Trapper said. 'Somebody trot out the latest pictures of this kid with the shell fragment in his chest.'
No one moved.
'Snap it up!' yelled Hawkeye. 'We're the pros from Dover, and the last pictures we saw must be forty-eight hours old by now.'"

This latter exchange is repeated in the 1970 movie, but the term pros from Dover is not explained in the script. People who had seen the movie, but not read the book, started using the phrase to mean outside experts/consultants without understanding that Hawkeye was using the term facetiously, referring to an old con he used to run.

"Look, mother, I want to go to work in one hour. We are the Pros from Dover and we figure to crack this kid's chest and get out to golf course before it gets dark. So you go find the gas-passer and you have him pre-medicate this patient. Then bring me the latest pictures on him. The ones we saw must be 48 hours old by now. Then call the kitchen and have them rustle us up some lunch. Ham and eggs will all right. Steak would be even better. And then give me at least ONE nurse who knows how to work in close without getting her tits in my way."

by Shannon L.W. September 12, 2006

Dover, Florida

Dover, Florida is a small Hispanic community off of East Tampa and if you’re from around the area, it’s mostly popular for its gang “Dover Locos” the East side gang dominated by one major family but are not the only East gang in the area and you’ll find the neighborhoods littered with gang graffiti nothing but Sur 13 crossed out and “F scrap” “412” writing almost every fence or stop signed is tagged over the rivalry but in present day is a ghost town. There’s literally no other reason to move here unless you’re looking for construction work or the strawberry fields. Only interesting thing is the horse racing and quinces at a ranch but always be ready for a fight or shooting to break out. I like to call it “little Mexico” because the Mexican stores, Mexican gangs, and mainly Mexican family’s that live in dover, fl.

Hillsborough county Dover, Florida

by Sunshinestate813 February 22, 2022

Hoover Doover Manoeuvre

An outlandish physical, or verbal feat, which leaves the observer in a state of amazement. Some might say "Houdiniesque"

Historically used after someone has rolled a perfect joint under particularly difficult circumstances (eg. while riding on a roller coaster or skydiving).
"Thats a real beauty! How did you pull off that hoover doover manoeuvre"

Otherwise typically used when watching sport;
"Wow, he stepped one way, then the other! Before you knew it he'd hoover doovered himself across the try line"

by HDM May 1, 2014

ben dover

the best fake name ever.

Hi, Im Dr. Ben Dover, I'll be conducting your examination today.

by Dr. Ben Dover December 19, 2007

dooverlackie

A whatchamacallit. You know, a thingamajig. It's like a doohickey but not quite.

"Pass me the dooverlackie. The thing, that you use to open the other thing! Yes, that one!"

by Flashman May 29, 2007

Dover, ma

dover is a very rich, very white, very small suburb of boston where all of the boys play lax and smoke alot of pot and all of the girls do coke so they can stay thin enough to fit into their 500 dollar jeans every day. the girls are generally huge bitches but are hot enough to get away with it, and the boys wear only polo and vinyard vines but claim to be straight. all of these kids are really preppy and really stuck up. the high school is public, but it might as well be private because it has about a 99.9999% college acceptance rate and sends an unproportionate number of kids to ivy league school every year. even the houses that arent the size of hotels are worth millions of dollars because the town is located the perfect distance from the city. most peopel who live in dover have summer houses on the cape or in nantucket.

dover, ma is notorious for breeding sexy blonde girls

by tbrow March 7, 2010

Dover stumble

Dover Stumble. when you are from Dover township Ontario and you are clearly intoxicated and have recently received anal sex and are trying to make your way home, Participants are often found outside of the Central. looks like a combination of a sore back, sore ass and stumbling around,

look there's D_ _ doing the Dover stumble

by fckdupdtchman December 4, 2014