shrinkers

Noun

shrinker (plural shrinkers)

1. Something that makes something else shrink.
   • It's been an everyday sight on the East Coast Main Line since it started testing in 1977... but no longer. They may have been marketed as the 'Journey shrinker' upon their arrival on the route, but time has caught up with the 'InterCity 125s'.2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Traction transition: HST to Azuma”, in Rail, page 32
2. (slang) A psychiatrist; a head-shrinker.
3. A sock-like article used to compress a stump remaining after amputation.
4. One who shrinks or recoils.
   • His peculiar character of shrinker from everything and every one, always retreating into his shell of contemptuous opposition as a snail into his shell, led, perhaps, to his rejection of ordinary phraseology, the simple mode of expression used by the million.1881, Aston Leigh, chapter 4, in The Story of Philosophy, London: Trübner & Co., page 27
5. Something that itself shrinks.
   • Sometimes I think that humanity is divided into two classes, the Shrinkers and the non-Shrinkers. If you are a Shrinker, you are able to diminish yourself at will, and to slip into the kingdom of Lilliput, not in the role of Gulliver,1956, Beverley Nichols, Sunlight on the Lawn, page 73