• Head-shrinker

    Origin

    Presumably, patients and clients feel as though their heads are being shrunk.

    Full definition of head-shrinker

    Noun

    head-shrinker

    (plural head-shrinkers)
    1. (slang) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.
    2. Literally, one who shrinks heads, as previously done by some Amazon tribes.

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