razor

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English

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a straight shaving razor

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Etymology

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From Middle English rasour, from Old French rasour, from raser (“to scrape, to shave”). More at rat.

Displaced native Old English sċierseax (literally “shaving knife”).

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Noun

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razor (plural razors)

  1. A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
  2. Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.
    • 2007 July 1, Jake Mooney, “For Aficionados of Shaving, la Crème de la Crème”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      These are fellows who shun the three-, four- and five-blade contraptions and canned goops for an older mode of shaving that they insist remains the ideal: a straight razor or a safety razor with a double-edged blade, and a fine English cream lathered and applied with a badger-hair brush.
    • 2013, Robert L. Buyer, Ursula T. Coute, Following the North Star, page 26:
      The box was jam packed full o' gifts for each manjack of us: razors, aftershave, toothbrushes, an' books.
  3. The sharp tusk of a wild boar.
  4. (philosophy) A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
    Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor

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Verb

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razor (third-person singular simple present razors, present participle razoring, simple past and past participle razored)

  1. (transitive) To shave with a razor.
    • 1868, George MacDonald, chapter 6, in Guild Court‎[2], volume 3, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 137:
      He thought likewise, that what with razoring and tanning, and the change of his clothes, he was not likely to be recognised.
    • 1996, George R. R. Martin, “Tyrion”, in A Game of Thrones‎[3], New York: Bantam, published 2016, page 641:
      Lord Tywin did not believe in half measures. He razored his lip and chin as well, but kept his side-whiskers, two great thickets of wiry golden hair that covered most of his cheeks from ear to jaw.
    • 2008 April 13, Sara Corbett, “Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?”, in New York Times‎[4]:
      He might be busy examining the advertisements for prostitutes stuck up in a São Paulo phone booth, or maybe getting his ear hairs razored off at a barber shop in Vietnam.

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