headshrinker
Americannoun
noun
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Often shortened to: shrink. slang a psychoanalyst
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a head-hunter who shrinks the heads of his victims
Etymology
Origin of headshrinker
An Americanism dating back to 1945–50; head + shrink + -er 1
Example Sentences
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“You think you’re the perfect headshrinker with all those psychology books you read, and you really don’t know a thing.”
From Literature
Baring his troubles to an absorbed audience, Paar for three days turned 25 million people into one agglomerate headshrinker.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cabaret Comic Jack Carter will appear as an expatriate screenwriter in London in Come Live with Me; TV Host Durward Kirby will be a fumbling philanderer in Me and Thee; and Alan King is applying his gift for Levittown levity to the role of a shrinking headshrinker in The Impossible Years.
From Time Magazine Archive
During his early years in Hollywood, anyone who had predicted that he would end up as the rootin'-tootin' idol of U.S. children would have been led instantly off to a headshrinker.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Seems the brass are holding you for observation until some headshrinker gets in from HQ.
From Project Gutenberg
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