Meaning of head-shrinker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.
   slang
2. One who shrinks heads, as previously done by some Amazon tribes.
   literally

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Examples

“DIESEL: In the opinion on this court, this child is depraved on account he ain't had a normal home. ACTION: Hey, I'm depraved on account I'm deprived. DIESEL: So take him to a headshrinker.”

“I listened to the sculptor of Dead Dad give an interview to a European television station while he crouched by the shrunken corpse of his own creation, a huge technical advance over the headshrinkers of New Guinea.”

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