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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal The act or an instance of undermining someone's confidence by psychological means.
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“New Years was last night, and more than a few drinks were had by all – our psych-out, early river-side fake-out countdowns are probably famous to anyone out on the water last night for a cruise.”
“It predisposes them to psych-out what others might want from them and then make it happen.”
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“Aronofsky is remarkably skilled at ratcheting up the psych-out qualities of story ever since he made Requiem for a Dream -- his horrific film of middle-class drug addiction based on the late Hubert Selby's book of the same name.”
“Was there a psych-out factor with the other contestants?”
“But I also climbed -- well, I kind of built myself a rainbow, because I decided I was being wimpy, and I think that was about a 5.7, and I also did two 5. 8s on the slab and a tricky psych-out of a 5.8 in the dihedral under and over the barrel vault, which I had also done before.”
“Noonan, aside from being the greatest 1-word psych-out in the history of athletic competition (Nnnnnoonan!), served the critical role of the glue, the thread, the soul that somehow held this manic comic masterpiece together.”
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“On the golf course, he's a hyper-competitive psych-out artist.”
“It was the psych-out factor, like Mike Tyson—the other guy was beat before he even got into the ring.”
“MK does a nice little psych-out: "I think her hair looks gorgeous." [pause] "But that's the only thing I think is gorgeous.”
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“Yes, it parodied the sports film by using a convoluted made-up game called "BASEketball" where you play basketball with baseball rules and are allowed to "psych-out" the "batter" (or is it the shooter?), but the real target was professional sports in general and that's a parody that was long overdue.”
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