simple past tense and past participle of barber-chair

present participle of barber chair

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of barber-chair

(Western US, of a tree being felled) To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward.

Alternative form of barber chair (when used attributively).

present participle of barber-chair

(obsolete, slang, derogatory) An overdressed shopboy who affects the airs and graces of a gentleman.

(intransitive, slang) To do something correctly.

plural of sleeping barber problem

(computing theory) A problem of interprocess communication and synchronization where one process responds to requests from multiple other threads and sleeps when not doing so. In some cases this may lead to an undesirable state where components are waiting for each other despite being ready.