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- noun Plural form of
head-shrinker .
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Examples
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Pausing on a close shot of the shrunken heads, Denier Bud said that they are being used to frame the Nazis as head-shrinkers.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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It's a furrowed-browed, head-scratching (or, head-in-the-sand) lack of intellectual honesty and political insight perhaps best left for head-shrinkers, political historians, or both to decipher.
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They taught Americans that they are a country dysfunctional manic-depressives and to prove it, the list of bulls***-artists, con-artists, head-shrinkers, moralists, evangelists and snake-oil salesmen, collectively called "experts", that the "talk-shows" stuffed down the gullet of the gullible public was endless; and they're still trotting them out by the dozen today.
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Benny had it on his mind to marry her, she don't go for it, Benny spent maybe thousands sending her to head-shrinkers.
Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958
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Benny had it on his mind to marry her, she don't go for it, Benny spent maybe thousands sending her to head-shrinkers.
Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958
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Take the word 'insanity,' for instance; the word isn't even used by head-shrinkers any more because it's a legal definition that has nothing whatever to do with the condition of the human mind.
...Or Your Money Back Randall Garrett 1957
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"I didn't know that head-shrinkers were supposed to be sane, themselves."
Time For The Stars Heinlein, Robert A. 1956
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In my opinion, forcing yourself to give up one of your hardest-held ideals -- virginity -- merely because of the utter bilge that those idiot head-shrinkers stuffed you with, is sheer, plain idiocy.
The Galaxy Primes 1927
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But then the Bears have spent the past few months making head-shrinkers and everybody else scratch their heads.
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But then the Bears have spent the past few months making head-shrinkers and everybody else scratch their heads.
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