TODD, SWEENEY


Meaning of TODD, SWEENEY in English

Todd, Sweeney /tɒd $ tɑːd/ BrE AmE

a character in a 19th-century British play whose job is to cut men’s hair, but who murders his customers and has them made into meat ↑ pie s . He is known as ‘the demon barber of Fleet Street’.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.