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plural barbers
A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards. quotations examples
There's also a barber's shop and that staple of railway stations up and down the UK - a WH Smith.
2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27
A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries. examples
(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. examples
third-person singular simple present barbers, present participle barbering, simple past and past participle barbered
To cut the hair or beard of (a person). examples
(US, slang) To chatter, talk. quotations
‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’
1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 29