to barber
1
1.8
- verb
- /ˈbɑːrbər/
:
cortar y arreglar el pelo y la barba
- He decided to barber his hair before the big interview to look more presentable.
- freshly barbered
- barbered hair
- well-barbered
Examples
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He's clean-shaven, barbered, and his nails have been trimmed.
Fiction book (2000) -
Granted, he was tall, as advertised, but his overall appearance, although prosperous, pleasant, and neatly barbered, would win him no screen tests.
Fiction book (2001) -
That's when my old man was barbering a bit, still.
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"Roanoke told me he barbered you."
Fiction book (1999) -
Trim and fit, nice clothes, professionally barbered hair with a touch of gray at the temples, wire-framed glasses.
Fiction book (2000) -
Shambhu could have been twenty-five or forty, face like a dry dirt road, hair not barbered but hacked, shirt split off from the collar.
Fiction book (1996) -
The models of excellence they hold up to their students are exemplars of creative, if often unconventional, genius rather than the barbered and buttoned-down movers and shakers in the practical world to which others may aspire.
Academic text (1994) -
She had never wanted to barber a man in her life, wouldn't even have thought of such an intimate thing, but just looking at Mr. McLaughlin brought up a fierce desire to take her sewing shears to all that light brown hair, that dreadful beard that hid so much of his face.
Fiction book (1999) -
And the ushers, young men the same age as the deceased from the dead girl's junior high school class, with freshly barbered heads and ghost-white gloves, gathered first in a tight knot of six and then separated into two lines of three; they moved down the aisle from the back where they had assembled and surrounded the bier.
Fiction book (1992) -
Spacious P124 homes and condominium complexes sat on well-barbered lawns where a corps of gardeners ministered to exotic plantings.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
80
1.0
Make a person's hair shorter using scissors or clippers
Compounds
2
1.9
A large adjustable chair with headrest and footrest used in a barbershop for haircuts and shaves
- Archaic
An old job where people who cut hair also do small operations and pull teeth
Surface Forms
Etymology
Barber as a verb comes from the same Latin root barba meaning 'beard', because barbers were the people who looked after beards and hair; so to barber someone is to cut, trim, or style their hair or beard like a barber does.