psych

Substantiv

1. 1

   umgangssprachlichClipping of psychiatry. A psychiatric hospital or other treatment facility; also, a psychiatric department or ward in such a facility.

   He had to be involuntarily committed to the psych ward.

   "I couldn't stay in the psych. I had to get out, before Rudolf got to me. He is alive; he set me up," I tell him, looking around, and trying to figure out why I'm not in prison or at the police station.

   I still stood by my assessment that she should've checked into psych. Body dysmorphia was one thing but actually believing Barbie was a real person walking among us? That was a little too much.

2. 2

   Variante von psychiatryumgangssprachlichClipping of psychiatry.

3. 3

   Variante von psychologyumgangssprachlichClipping of psychology.

   I took psych in my freshman year at college.

Substantiv

1. 1

   Variante von psychiatristumgangssprachlichClipping of psychiatrist.

   [S]he had had what she declared was a momentous series of meetings with [Sigmund] Freud in Vienna. She had attended a conference of psychs at which he had presided and they had taken a fancy to each other.

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   Variante von psychologistumgangssprachlichClipping of psychologist; also, a clipping of psychoanalyst.

Verb

1. 1

   umgangssprachlichChiefly followed by out: to analyse (something), especially psychologically; also (generally), to work out (something).

2. 2

   Variante von psychoanalyseumgangssprachlichClipping of psychoanalyse (“to treat (someone) using psychoanalysis”); also, to carry out psychological testing on (someone).

   Prisoners brought from all the lockups in the city were unloaded here. […] They trooped in to be psyched, social-worked, assigned to cells.

Verb

1. 1

   umgangssprachlichOften followed by out: to deceive, intimidate, or otherwise manipulate (someone or oneself) emotionally or using psychology.

2. 2

   umgangssprachlichOften followed by up: to put (someone or oneself) into a mental or psychological state where one is ready for some (often challenging) experience; specifically, to make (someone or oneself) enthusiastic or excited about something.

   Hip hop always gets me psyched, so I put it on before a race.

   On the stage, what we have to try to have shine through is our love for each other. Sometimes it's difficult, we have to try to psych ourselves out of the places we're at and go to a higher spiritual plane.

3. 3

   umgangssprachlichOf a person: to get into a mental or psychological state where one is ready for some (often challenging) experience; specifically, to make oneself enthusiastic or excited about something.

4. 4

   umgangssprachlichFollowed by out: to become mentally confused or disturbed.

Interjektion

1. 1

   umgangssprachlichUsed to indicate jokingly that a statement which one has made was false and that one has successfully fooled the person whom one is speaking to; just kidding!, not!, tricked you!

   Here, have fifty dollars. Psych! That was two dollars!

   I broke up with my girlfriend. Here’s her number. Psych! That’s the wrong number!

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   umgangssprachlichUsed to express surprised happiness; wow!

   Psych! I just found my missing bracelet!

Substantiv

1. 1

   Variante von psychicumgangssprachlichClipping of psychic (“a person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as clairvoyance, precognition, and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences”).

2. 2

   Variante von psychic or psychic bidumgangssprachlichClipping of psychic or psychic bid (“a bid intended to mislead opponents by giving a false impression about one's hand of playing cards”).

Verb

1. 1

   umgangssprachlichTo make (a bid) intended to mislead opponents by giving a false impression about one's hand of playing cards.

2. 2

   umgangssprachlichTo deceive (an opponent or opponents) with such a psychic bid.

3. 3

   umgangssprachlichTo make a bid intended to mislead opponents by giving a false impression about one's hand of playing cards; to make a psychic bid.

Adjektiv

1. 1

   umgangssprachlichOf or relating to psychedelic rock music.

   a psych album a psych band

2. 2

   Variante von psychedelicumgangssprachlichClipping of psychedelic (“of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced altered awareness, distortions of perception, hallucinations, etc.”).

   curtains with psych colours psych-rock

Substantiv

1. 1

   Variante von psychedelic rockumgangssprachlichClipping of psychedelic rock (“a genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, electronic music, folk music, jazz, and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s”).

Formen

Plural

psychs, psyches

Komparativ

more psych

Superlativ

most psych

Präteritum

psyched

Partizip II

psyched

Partizip I

psyching

3. Person Singular

psychs