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barbershop

barbershop

48 1.0
A shop where men get their hair cut and beards trimmed
  • noun
  • /ˈbɑːrbərˌʃɑːp/
translation icon : barbería
  • You see the barbershop over there?
  • a barbershop sign

Once you nail the perfect hairstyle that I just got out of the barbershop feeling.

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Examples

  • A guy goes into a barbershop, he asks for a haircut.

  • Your father's father ran the Star Barbershop on Market Street.

  • And my idea was I go to the barbershop and I get my hair cut.

  • I left him at the barbershop To get his hair cut.

  • Diqnan's sitting in the waiting area of a barbershop reading a newspaper.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Last night, you met Johnny in Spinelli's barbershop.

  • It really smells like a barbershop, like I'm not even kidding, it does.

  • No lady should walk past the barbershop where common men sat and gossiped on the benches outside.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Narrator 1: Sunday at two o'clock, Owen is in T Bone's barbershop with many of the other neighborhood kids.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • I visited the barbershop to get a fresh haircut before my big event.

Synonyms

tonsorial parlor
vsbarbershop
  • Archaic
9.9

A shop where men get haircuts and shaves

is the everyday modern word used by most people for the same service

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  • US
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48 1.0

Surface Forms

barbershop singular
barbershops plural

Morphology

barbershop = barber + shop (transparent) = barber + shop

A straightforward compound of 'barber' + 'shop'; learners who know both components will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Barbershop comes from barber, which comes from the Latin barba meaning 'beard', and shop meaning a place to work. So a barbershop is the place where people get their hair cut and their beards trimmed.