Home › Words › M › midshavemidshavemidshave means during a shave.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, midshave ranks #29,718 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom mid- + shave.advDuring a shave.e.g.“Rumors abound of a ghost who haunts the third dining room, which purportedly was once a barber shop where a local mobster was cut down midshave.” — 1998, Rebecca Poole Forée, Northern California Best Places: Restaurants, Lodgings, and Touring, Seattle, Wash.: Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 109:nounA point in time during a shave.e.g.“You roll out of bed, ready for a fresh, new day. But it’s the same miserable day it was yesterday. Your electric razor dies in midshave because of a power failure.” — 1969 November 1, Business Week, pages 63–64; republished in “The War That Business Must Win”, in Patrick E. Connor, compiler, Dimensions in Modern Management, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).