midshave en · ADV
Etymology
From mid- + shave.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) During a shave.
I needed to quickly establish what kind of character the gunman was. To do so, I came up with a scene in a barbershop, where an enemy attacks the main character midshave.
2017, Hirohiko Araki [pseudonym; Toshiyuki Araki], translated by Nathan A. Collins, Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga, San Francisco, Calif.: Viz Media, →ISBN, page 32:“What did he say? The barber.” / “Not a word. He stopped midshave, straight-blade razor in his hand, and he went to his cabinet and got them for me.[…]”
2004, Peter Robinson, “Going Back”, in The Price of Love and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, published 2010, →ISBN, page 44:Rumors abound of a ghost who haunts the third dining room, which purportedly was once a barber shop where a local mobster was cut down midshave.
1998, Rebecca Poole Forée, Northern California Best Places: Restaurants, Lodgings, and Touring, Seattle, Wash.: Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 109:Dom Denario caught Cotton’s eye in the reflection of the pocket-sized mirror that hung on the cinderblock wall. A pit-stained, stretched-out undershirt struggled to contain his fat belly (only doing so with the help of black suspenders), while globs of shaving cream adhered to his face like melted marshmallows. He stopped what he was doing, midshave.
2017, Todd Gilmour, Karyn Rae, The 51st State: State of Affairs, [Okatie, S.C.]: Karyn Rae Publishing, →ISBN, pages 159–160:There was just one slight wrinkle: The best-known justice of the peace was also the town barber. That meant that barbershop customers were often pressed into service as witnesses to a short-notice marriage ceremony, sometimes standing up for a couple midshave.
2004, Harriet Baskas, Washington Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Guilford, Conn.: The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 205:And then at 1:00 a.m., as if a switch had been flipped, the night turned to a sea of flame. Addison stood midshave, transfixed by the sight.
2017, Theo Emery, Hellfire Boys: The Birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the Race for the World’s Deadliest Weapons, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 325:“Okay,” I say, “I guess we can put it on the credit card, but I can’t take it in tomorrow morning because I have a banana job.” / This stops him midshave.
2008, Beth Lisick, Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 24:THE TENTATIVE KNOCK on his door made Gabe pause, midshave.
2017, T.J. Kline, chapter 17, in The Radcliffes, New York, N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, page 75: