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  • noun A barber shop.

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Examples

  • First stop is the barber's, where Maomao sees "the Papa in the mirror . . . getting more like Papa the way he used to be."

    Indomitable Survivors Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • But there are times I'd actually rather attend a funeral than sit in a barber's chair, depending on who dies.

    Charlie Carillo: Pound for Pound, It Was a Costly Cut Charlie Carillo 2011

  • And when Grief left the barber's hands half an hour later Aloysius Pankburn was still hanging over the bar, still drinking by himself.

    THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN 2010

  • In the book's most daring story, a boy from Pakistan working in a barber's shop and selling mobile phones, one of an exploited workforce of immigrants whose lives are contained by their lodging-house and their Muslim community, falls in love with a fellow-worker.

    The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review Hermione Lee 2010

  • When I have a steady schedule at work, I'll try to get my barber's license.

    How I Found My First Big Job Melissa Korn 2011

  • There was always barber's banter and customers would try to talk to me, but I was suspicious of strangers and not interested, much to my grandad's disgust.

    Family life 2011

  • At the barber's this morning, I heard a deejay talking about trying to buy a chaise longue.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • An off-duty city Department of Corrections officer shot and killed a 77-year-old man Tuesday who approached him brandishing a pistol while the officer was sitting in a barber's chair getting a haircut in Brooklyn, authorities said.

    A Barbershop Fight Turns Deadly Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011

  • If I recall correctly, the barber's shop was at the front and the ladies' salon at the back.

    Family life 2011

  • Moments later, Piven mocks a barber's shop as well as the Indian men standing inside it, requesting a "mullet haircut without the mullet" in reference to one of the cuts offered by the local barber.

    Zachary Stockill: Consuming Enlightenment: Jeremy Piven's India Zachary Stockill 2011

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