barber
IPA: bˈɑrbɝ
noun
- A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards.
- A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
- (Canada) A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.
- A surname originating as an occupation for a barber.
- A neighbourhood of Chico, Butte County, California, United States.
- A township in Faribault County, Minnesota, United States.
- Former name of Maurer, New Jersey.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States.
- A town in the north of Curaçao.
verb
- To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
- (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
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Examples of "barber" in Sentences
- The pertinacious barber was to be put down.
- The barber was placed in the disciplinary unit.
- Barber patented the process in the United States.
- He entered the ring under the name of Robert Barber.
- He is the voice of Jack the barber on King of the Hill.
- The switch for the stop light was located in the barber shop.
- Barber became the Superintendent of the Caldwell School district.
- Barber now sits on the Board of Directors of The Bridge Foundation.
- If any barber is good enough to shave your neck, and then I am, too.
- The next day, Wally and his friends go to the barber shop for haircuts.
- The barber transcribed the Salabati, a profession of the Islamic faith.
- For me, the ideal barber is the one who doesn't talk and the ideal accommodation is clean, comfortable and anonymous.
- Compared to full salon haircuts, having a buzz cut at the barber is inexpensive: $10 to $25 depending on the neighbourhood.
- I called the barber in question, Joe Tourrenoueva, who has been my barber for 40 years, since way back when he charged $20.
- Another statesman came into the shop and said, Hello, Sir John, I guess the barber is the only man in Canada that can have you by the nose?
- There will be Barack portraits hanging in barber shops in Milwaukee, Birmingham and Bozeman, as well as Tokyo and Buenos Aires, perhaps even Cairo and Jakarta.
- I went to bathe and a bit of hair fell out, and last night we called the barber, Chávez told politicians during a swearing-in ceremony for new cabinet ministers.
- I wonder, too, whether these lumbering uses of the term barber originally had any connection with the notion of poor cutting; the connotations of barber in informal speech have not always been the most favorable.
- When I called the barber shop, they told me that in addition to Landry, their clients have included siblings of Clinton Portis and Fred Davis, and that all three players and many more have their photos hanging on the wall.
- The man with the shears eschews the term barber, preferring either artist or sculptor, but his role at Truth and Soul Black Stars is even more expansive: adviser, storyteller, protector, father figure to fatherless youths, friend.