"wig-picker" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wig-pickers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wig-picker (plural wig-pickers)
  1. (dated) A psychotherapist. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-wig-picker-en-noun-CLV-IveT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1958, David M. Camerer, The Damned Wear Wings, page 167",
          "text": "And I've been up, right with you,\" snapped the little flight surgeon, \"playing wig picker to a flock of kids with nerve sickness.",
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          "ref": "1965, Patrick D. Wall, Trio: The Revolting Intellectuals Organization, page 82",
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