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barbershop

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United States

The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.

noun

  1. 1

    The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.

  2. 2

    A style of a cappella vocal music, usually sung in four-part harmony.

Etymology

Compound of barber + shop.

verb

  1. 1

    To perform in the barbershop musical style.

Forms

plural
barbershops
past tense
barbershopped
past participle
barbershopped
present participle
barbershopping
third person singular
barbershops
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).