midshave

midshave adverb: during a shave.

Adverb

midshave (not comparable)

During a shave.
- Rumors abound of a ghost who haunts the third dining room, which purportedly was once a barber shop where a local mobster was cut down midshave.1998, Rebecca Poole Forée, Northern California Best Places: Restaurants, Lodgings, and Touring, Seattle, Wash.: Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 109
- “What did he say? The barber.” / “Not a word. He stopped midshave, straight-blade razor in his hand, and he went to his cabinet and got them for me.[…]”2004, Peter Robinson, “Going Back”, in The Price of Love and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, published 2010, →ISBN, page 44

midshave (uncountable)

A point in time during a shave.
- You roll out of bed, ready for a fresh, new day. But it’s the same miserable day it was yesterday. Your electric razor dies in midshave because of a power failure.1969 November 1, Business Week, pages 63–64; republished in “The War That Business Must Win”, in Patrick E. Connor, compiler, Dimensions in Modern Management, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company...
- Her eyes strayed across the flat landscape and her fingers stilled, knife in midshave down a potato.1992, Christine Dorsey, Kansas Kiss, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 143

That meant that barbershop customers were often pressed into service as witnesses to a short-notice marriage ceremony, sometimes standing up for a couple midshave.2004, Harriet Baskas, Washington Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Guilford, Conn.: The Globe Pequot...
“Okay,” I say, “I guess we can put it on the credit card, but I can’t take it in tomorrow morning because I have a banana job.” / This stops him midshave.2008, Beth Lisick, Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone, New York, N.Y....
Addison stood midshave, transfixed by the sight.2017, Theo Emery, Hellfire Boys: The Birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the Race for the World’s Deadliest Weapons, New York...
To do so, I came up with a scene in a barbershop, where an enemy attacks the main character midshave.2017, Hirohiko Araki [pseudonym; Toshiyuki Araki], translated by Nathan A. Collins, Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating...

From mid- + shave.

What does midshave mean?: Midshave means during a shave.
How do you use midshave in a sentence?: That meant that barbershop customers were often pressed into service as witnesses to a short-notice marriage ceremony, sometimes standing up for a couple midshave.
What part of speech is midshave?: Midshave can be an adverb or a noun.

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