head game
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]head game (plural head games)
- (informal) An attempt to psychologically manipulate or intimidate someone.
- 2013, Sereena Nightshade, Black Market, →ISBN, page 226:
- The show boating, head games, phony fronts and near literal spider's webs tossed out as glistening and beautiful nets to capture the prize or the perceived prize always amazed me.
- 2014, Derek J. Goodman, The Contamination of Sandra Wolfe, →ISBN:
- Sandra got the distinct impression that he was playing some kind of head game with her.
- 2015, Michael Moorcock -, The Whispering Swarm: Book One of The Sanctuary of the White Friars, →ISBN:
- I don't do moody or wounded or stern. I can't play head games.
- A mental pursuit or obsession.
- 1900, The School Journal - Volume 61, page 669:
- Another was able to bring into popularity puzzles, conundrums, and quiet " head games" or contests of memory and quick-wittedness.
- 2014, Kay J. Mahne, Capturing Minds by Capturing Hearts, →ISBN:
- Learning is definitely a head game.
- 2014, Robert C. Vallieres, Jacquelyn M. Howard, Wounded Warriors: A Soldier's Story of Healing through Birds, →ISBN, page 28:
- Distance plays into the head game of “what if.”
- Skill at fellatio.
- 2003, “Magic Stick”, in La Bella Mafia, performed by Lil' Kim and 50 Cent:
- When it, come to sex don't test my skills
'Cause my head game have you head over heels
- 2010, Wahida Clark, What's Really Hood!: A Collection of Tales from the Streets, →ISBN:
- They both knew the reason he always came back. Her head game was excellent.
- 2012, Jackie Ricci, Michael “El Jefe” Archer, Trunk-Space: The Retribution of a Psychopath, →ISBN, page 119:
- She went to work like the cock-sucking champion that she was. This Bitch had always had crazy “head game.”
Verb
[edit]head game (third-person singular simple present head games, present participle head gaming, simple past and past participle head gamed)
- Alternative form of head-game
- 2007, Richard Morris, A Denial of Aesthetic Principle, →ISBN, page 29:
- All to be head gamed with official lures, which look on, through their guarded masks.
Translations
[edit]psychological manipulation
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