Shrink

[David Casseres]

"Shrink" was highly popular in the 50's, when the TV-watching public
became aware of psychoanalysis and every comedian had routine about
it.  I can't believe that it wasn't widespread in the written language
at that point.

On 10/9/05, Tofuman <slowdrop at gmail.com> wrote:
> From World Wide Words
>
> Shrink, the abbreviation, became popular in the USA in the 1970s,
> though it had first appeared in one of Thomas Pynchon's books, The
> Crying of Lot 49, in 1965 and there is anecdotal evidence that it was
> around earlier, which is only to be expected of a slang term that
> would have been mainly transmitted through the spoken word in its
> earliest days.
>
> http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-shr1.htm
>
>