midshave
Collocations
4ADJ.
still
VERB + MIDSHAVE
cut, dies, stilled, stopped
MIDSHAVE + NOUN
potato, razor, straight-blade
PREP.
down, down, in, in
Definitions
adv
During a shave.
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.
“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.[…]”
noun
A point in time during a shave.
You roll out of bed, ready for a fresh, new day. But it’s the same miserable day it was yesterday. Your electric razor dies in midshave because of a power failure.
Her eyes strayed across the flat landscape and her fingers stilled, knife in midshave down a potato.
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6Rumors 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.
Wiktionary“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.[…]”
WiktionaryThere 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 mar
WiktionaryYou roll out of bed, ready for a fresh, new day. But it’s the same miserable day it was yesterday. Your electric razor dies in midshave because of a power failure.
WiktionaryHer eyes strayed across the flat landscape and her fingers stilled, knife in midshave down a potato.
WiktionaryIn Amarillo, Texas, he was hustled from his compartment in midshave, his face still decorated with puffs of lather, and found himself face to face with the entire town, which had gathered to watch him
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