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shaver †
Slang, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person who discounted notes, usually at excessive interest.
See: shave(def. 2)
Quotations
1836
It is said that . . . discounts at the ordinary rates are but sparingly granted, the shavers, many of whom are Directors . . . are amply supplied with funds, which they lend out at the enormous interest of four or five percent. per month. . . .
1841
During all this time Brokers were in demand and Shavers made their harvest.
1946
The Albertans fought the "St. James Street gang" as dauntlessly as the people of Upper Canada, a century before, had fought the "Montreal shavers."