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HEAD-SHRINKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does head-shrinker mean? 

HEAD-SHRINKER (noun)
  The noun HEAD-SHRINKER has 2 senses:

1. a physician who specializes in psychiatryplay

2. a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophiesplay

  Familiarity information: HEAD-SHRINKER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEAD-SHRINKER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A physician who specializes in psychiatry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

head-shrinker; psychiatrist; shrink

Hypernyms ("head-shrinker" is a kind of...):

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "head-shrinker"):

alienist (a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness)

analyst; psychoanalyst (a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis)

Instance hyponyms:

Horney; Karen Danielsen Horney; Karen Horney (United States psychiatrist (1885-1952))

Jaspers; Karl Jaspers; Karl Theodor Jaspers (German psychiatrist (1883-1969))

Charles Frederick Menninger; Charles Menninger; Menninger (United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953))

Karl Augustus Menninger; Karl Menninger; Menninger (United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990))

Menninger; William Claire Menninger; William Menninger (United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966))

Harry Stack Sullivan; Sullivan (United States psychiatrist (1892-1949))


Sense 2

Meaning:

A savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

head-shrinker; headhunter

Hypernyms ("head-shrinker" is a kind of...):

barbarian; savage (a member of an uncivilized people)


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