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wig-picker en · NOUN
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(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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