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wig-picker en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (dated) A psychotherapist.
    • And I've been up, right with you," snapped the little flight surgeon, "playing wig picker to a flock of kids with nerve sickness. 1958, David M. Camerer, The Damned Wear Wings, page 167:
    • I decided that a man full of self-pity was a bloody menace to himself and everyone else, so I went to see that wig-picker Esposito. 1965, Patrick D. Wall, Trio: The Revolting Intellectuals Organization, page 82:
    • Science fiction may be bad science and worse fiction, but to a good wig-picker it "is a sensitive barometer of our changing mental climate. 1954, Time, page 92:

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