Definition of "barber" []

• One whose business is to cut hair and to shave or trim beards. (noun)
• To cut the hair of. (verb-transitive)
• To shave or trim the beard of. (verb-transitive)
• To work as a barber. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The man with the shears eschews the term barber, preferring either artist or sculptor, but his role at Truth and Soul Black Stars is even more expansive: adviser, storyteller, protector, father figure to fatherless youths, friend."
• "I wonder, too, whether these lumbering uses of the term barber originally had any connection with the notion of poor cutting; the connotations of barber in informal speech have not always been the most favorable."
• "Another statesman came into the shop and said, Hello, Sir John, I guess the barber is the only man in Canada that can have you by the nose?"