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shaver
noun- a discounter of notes, at high interest rates CANADA
- The Albertans fought the “St. James Street gang” as dauntlessly as the people of Upper Canada had fought the “Montreal shavers.” — A. R. M. Lower, Colony to Nation, p. 517, 1946
- in the Korean war, a booby trap used by South Korean troops to sabotage North Korean transportation carts US
- When a group lifted the cart to replace the wheel the booby trap went off. This diabolical device was referred to by the ROKs as “the shaver” for the effect it had on one’s head. — Joseph C. Goulden, Korea, p. 129, 1982
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