Razor

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹeɪzÉ™/
• Rhymes: -eɪzÉ™(r)

Alternative forms

• razour obsolete

Origin

From Old French rasour, from raser ("to scrape, to shave").

Full definition of razor

Noun

1. A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
2. Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.
3. The sharp tusk of a wild boar.
4. (philosophy) A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.

Derived terms

Verb

1. (transitive) To cut with a razor.
• 2008, April 13, Sara Corbett, Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?, He might be busy examining the advertisements for prostitutes stuck up in a São Paulo phone booth, or maybe getting his ear hairs razored off at a barber shop in Vietnam.