- an act of shaving
- I need a shave.
- to have a shave
Extra Examples- He had a bath and a quick shave first.
- You can get a really close, smooth shave with this new double-bladed razor.
- an old-fashioned barber who does wet shaves
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- clean
- close
- smooth
- …
- need
- get
- have
- …
Word OriginOld English sc(e)afan ‘scrape away the surface of (something) by paring’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaven and German schaben.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See shave in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya close call/shave
- (informal) a situation in which you only just manage to avoid an accident, etc.
- He had a close shave when his brakes failed on the mountain road.
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