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  • noun Plural form of head-shrinker.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    McCain "Plays" the Base 2008

  • 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.

    "Experts" & the Decline of the American News Media 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "I didn't know that head-shrinkers were supposed to be sane, themselves."

    Time For The Stars Heinlein, Robert A. 1956

  • 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

  • But then the Bears have spent the past few months making head-shrinkers and everybody else scratch their heads.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2010

  • But then the Bears have spent the past few months making head-shrinkers and everybody else scratch their heads.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2010

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