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barber verb- to rob hotel rooms AUSTRALIA, 1950
- Second to “Barney”, Smith’s rated “Art the Barber”, an Adelaide-born operator who specialized in “barbering” hotels–he hopped into rooms when guests were absent and pinched things. — George Blaikie, Remember Smith’s Weekly?, p. 197, 1966
- to talk; to gossip US, 1938
Derives from a stereotypical barber’s inconsequential but incessant chatter with a chair-bound customer.
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