Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A headhunter who dries and shrinks the heads of enemies.
- noun Slang A psychiatrist, especially a psychoanalyst.
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- noun humorous
psychiatrist
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Examples
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I trusted my intuition and my feelings—until I started seeing a headshrinker at age eight because my intense mental labors to save the world included forgetting what time it was and peeing my pants in school a lot.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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I trusted my intuition and my feelings—until I started seeing a headshrinker at age eight because my intense mental labors to save the world included forgetting what time it was and peeing my pants in school a lot.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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I trusted my intuition and my feelings—until I started seeing a headshrinker at age eight because my intense mental labors to save the world included forgetting what time it was and peeing my pants in school a lot.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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But how will the hard-charging Beckett respond to Dorn's headshrinker?
Castle Exclusive: Star Trek's Michael Dorn Is Beckett's Shrink 2011
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I trusted my intuition and my feelings—until I started seeing a headshrinker at age eight because my intense mental labors to save the world included forgetting what time it was and peeing my pants in school a lot.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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I guess we shouldn't refer to Simmons as "that guy who plays the headshrinker in Law and Order" anymore?
"There's nothing to explain. It's perfectly obvious. She's stoned." Ann Althouse 2009
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Word on the Celebrity Snitch Circuit claims small screen headshrinker Dr. Phil McGraw had a cow when the Emmy gods snubbed his daytime series in favor of the celeb-studded hit hosted by former supermodel Tyra Banks.
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Oriana — his expensive and highly competent headshrinker — would say she was right.
Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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That headshrinker hadn't lasted long, not past the first "parent conference."
Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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"All right," he begrudged the professional headshrinker.
Alone Gardner, Lisa 2005
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