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/ˈɹeɪzə/ · noun
A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body..
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.
The box was jam packed full o' gifts for each manjack of us: razors, aftershave, toothbrushes, an' books.
Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor
He thought likewise, that what with razoring and tanning, and the change of his clothes, he was not likely to be recognised.
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.
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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Razor means A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body..
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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.
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