Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun head-shrinker

2 senses of head-shrinker

Sense 1
psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrink -- (a physician who specializes in psychiatry)
       => specialist, medical specialist -- (practices one branch of medicine)

Sense 2
headhunter, head-shrinker -- (a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies)
       => savage, barbarian -- (a member of an uncivilized people)