headshrinkerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

headshrinker (複数形 headshrinkers)

1. (slang, humorous) A psychiatrist.

   Synonyms: headshrink, shrink, trick cyclist

   • 1994, “My Iron Lung”, performed by Radiohead:

     The headshrinkers, they want my everything / My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon

語源

Originally US, probably by reference to slang terms like “swelled head” for someone with delusions of grandeur; a psychiatrist would remove such delusions, thus figuratively shrinking the patient's swelled head.

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名詞

head-shrinker (複数形 head-shrinkers)

1. (slang) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.

   Synonyms: headshrink, shrink, trick cyclist

2. (literally) One who shrinks heads, as previously done by some Amazon tribes.