Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Something that makes something else shrink.
  • noun slang A psychiatrist; a head-shrinker.
  • noun medicine An sock-like article used to compress a stump remaining after amputation.
  • noun Something that itself shrinks.

Etymologies

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shrink +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Or as John and I have tried earlier using a compression through what we call a shrinker that wraps around the bottom of the residual limb.

    CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2006 2006

  • Shrunk by fellow coin shrinker in New Mexico, Peter Ledlie, here's a "before" and "after" shot of a square brass coal token.

    User Friendly RSS Feed 2009

  • Recently Hackerbot Labs was invited by Intellectual Ventures to demonstrate their Maker Faire Editor's Choice Award-winning high voltage coin shrinker in front of a Vision Research Phantom 100k fps high-speed camera.

    MAKE Magazine 2009

  • Large diameter copper tubing can also be necked down by the same process, such as these examples from California coin shrinker Ross Overstreet.

    User Friendly RSS Feed 2009

  • At 14,000 joules, Rob Stephens, a friend and fellow coin shrinker in Ontario, Canada was able to separate the coin into two independent pieces.

    User Friendly RSS Feed 2009

  • 'shrinker' to compress the amputation site so that I can wear a prosthetic in the near future.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2008

  • TinyURL is the original URL shrinker, creating small links from larger ones that never expire.

    Five Best URL Shrinkers | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • For the amateur marathon-shrinker, the temptation would clearly be there; although with nothing more than kudos on offer, it is hard to think of a more apposite definition of only cheating yourself.

    The marathon man who cut a few corners 2010

  • Rachel Maddow has her way with the GOP's recent URL shrinker woes.

    Clearing the cache: You talkin' to me? Oh, okay, great, Mr. President. 2009

  • Rachel Maddow has her way with the GOP's recent URL shrinker woes.

    Clearing the cache: Paper tweets 2009

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