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  • noun Attributive form of barber shop

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Examples

  • As the Cook County Sheriff, Dart, 48, has cultivated uncommon political street cred among Chicago's typically fractious blocs: liberal reformers, old Democratic Party machine loyalists, latte sippers along the lakefront, barber-shop customers on the South Side, and union hard-hats in the labor halls.

    Tom Dart Won't Run For Chicago Mayor The Huffington Post/AP 2010

  • As the Cook County Sheriff, Dart, 48, has cultivated uncommon political street cred among Chicago's typically fractious blocs: liberal reformers, old Democratic Party machine loyalists, latte sippers along the lakefront, barber-shop customers on the South Side, and union hard-hats in the labor halls.

    Tom Dart Won't Run For Chicago Mayor The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • As the Cook County Sheriff, Dart, 48, has cultivated uncommon political street cred among Chicago's typically fractious blocs: liberal reformers, old Democratic Party machine loyalists, latte sippers along the lakefront, barber-shop customers on the South Side, and union hard-hats in the labor halls.

    Tom Dart Won't Run For Chicago Mayor The Huffington Post/AP 2010

  • Dublin barber-shop owner Arthur McGuinness said he could see no end in sight for the recession, despite the billions pumped into the Irish economy from the ECB and IMF.

    Eurozone's citizens split amid battle to stop debt crisis spreading 2011

  • A group harmony singer from his youth, Mr. Hauldren recorded several albums with Chordiac Arrest, a barber-shop quartet in which he sang baritone.

    Pitchman Rolled Out That TV Carpet Ad Stephen Miller 2011

  • As the Cook County Sheriff, Dart, 48, has cultivated uncommon political street cred among Chicago's typically fractious blocs: liberal reformers, old Democratic Party machine loyalists, latte sippers along the lakefront, barber-shop customers on the South Side, and union hard-hats in the labor halls.

    Tom Dart Won't Run For Chicago Mayor The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Hence his support for testing water for the metabolic products of cocaine use, and for the untried idea of testing hair left on barber-shop floors.

    When Testing for Cocaine Usage, Don't Follow the Money Carl Bialik 2011

  • He is not strong enough, in 2004 lost his debates with Cheiney, hypocratic like Clinton and finally uses very expensive barber-shop.

    Clinton win leads to Obama boost 2008

  • I cannot do any work now, though I always made my living before in the barber-shop, hauling wood, etc.

    Lapham's Quarterly: Ninety-nine and a Half Won't Do 2008

  • He is both attracted by his island's legendary past and repelled by the pettiness that made him want to leave it in the first place -- "" a kind of barber-shop chatter ... full of knowingness and conspiratorial hints, but really quite empty, mere words. ''

    The Writer's Workshop 2008

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