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head-shrinker
noun
A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.
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'The descendant of head-shrinkers is a good friend of mine.
"I do needlepoint all the time, instead of going to head-shrinkers," Mrs. Robinson said.
"Some time was wasted ashore as various head shrinkers examined me and tried various exotic psychotropic potions on my delightful yet non-addled brain. . . .
Latterday head-shrinkers can now be saved all that mess and bother by heading to Selfridges, where similar kinds of black magic are being practised in the pop-up iMakr store: there you can get yourself shrunk down and 3D-printed as a six-inch figurine.
Later, during a commercial break,you'll decide you've flipped your lid, gone a bit bugaloo.At one point they'll have you dress like Jimmy, teaseyou, call you Dr. Shrinker.
"It's the story of growers and shrinkers," Mr. Gilliam said.
He's a flat-tax, dry as dry ideological government-shrinker.
Dangin is, by all accounts, an adept plumper of breasts and shrinker of pores.
Speed-readers meet speed-shrinkers at Housing Works Bookstore Café's three-minute therapy sessions.
To the Republican base, Mr Ryan is the distilled essence of tea, a determined tax-cutter and state-shrinker.
From compassionate Conservative to growth rainmaker to state-shrinker, Cameron has gone through a huge change since 2005.
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