Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A razor with guards on each side of the edge to prevent the user from accidentally cutting himself in shaving.
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Examples
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The first of them, combined with an unfortunate early-morning safety-razor accident, resulted in this.
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Furiously he snatched up his tube of shaving-cream, furiously he lathered, with a belligerent slapping of the unctuous brush, furiously he raked his plump cheeks with a safety-razor.
Babbit 2004
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He may be viewed to-night as a plump, smooth, pink, baldish, podgy goodman, robbed of the importance of spectacles, squatting in breast-high water, scraping his lather-smeared cheeks with a safety-razor like a tiny lawn-mower, and with melancholy dignity clawing through the water to recover a slippery and active piece of soap.
Babbit 2004
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Yesterday I purchased a safety-razor and a packet of new blades.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 Various
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May I add that poodles ought not to be shaved with a safety-razor, but should be trimmed by a topiary expert?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 Various
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Not anticipating this good luck, we had exercised our ingenuity to construct a rude compass of our own out of a safety-razor blade and an eyelet from my boot.
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BYRON, on the other hand, composed a sorrowful ditty on the decadence of the Isles of Greece whilst shaving; but the invention of the safety-razor and the energetic action of M. VENIZELOS will most likely render it unnecessary for anyone to repeat such a performance.
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To raise money for buying luxuries, such as sugar, cigarettes, safety-razor blades, and playing cards.
A Study of Prison Conditions in North Carolina North Carolina State Board of Charities 1923
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He may be viewed to-night as a plump, smooth, pink, baldish, podgy goodman, robbed of the importance of spectacles, squatting in breast-high water, scraping his lather-smeared cheeks with a safety-razor like a tiny lawn-mower, and with melancholy dignity clawing through the water to recover a slippery and active piece of soap.
Chapter 7 1922
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Furiously he snatched up his tube of shaving-cream, furiously he lathered, with a belligerent slapping of the unctuous brush, furiously he raked his plump cheeks with a safety-razor.
Babbitt 1922
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