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adj
Clipping of psychedelic (“of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced altered awareness, distortions of perception, hallucinations, etc.”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, informal, often, slang, transitive
Topics: bridge, games
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of or relating to psychedelic rock music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, informal, often, slang, transitive
Topics: bridge, entertainment, games, lifestyle, music
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
intj
Used 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!
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, informal, often, slang, transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
intj
Used to express surprised happiness; wow!
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, informal, often, slang, transitive
Synonyms: adzooks, ay, caramba, mirabile dictu, chihuahua, begorra, bleeding heck, bleeding Nora, bless my heart, bless my soul, bless us, blige, blimey, bloody hell, bloody Nora, blow me, blow me backwards, blow me down, blow me over, blow me pink, blow me tight, blow me up, blow my buttons, butter my butt and call me a biscuit, by all that is holy, by Allah, by cracky, by George, by God, by golly, by gosh, by gum, by gummy, by jingo, by Jove, by juckies, by Jupiter, by thunder, by the living jingo, byrlady, Christ, Christ alive, Christ almighty, Christ on a bike, Christ on a cracker, Christ on a raft, Christ on a stick, Christ on a crutch, coo, cor, cor blimey, cor lummy, cowabunga, crikey, criminy, cripes, crivvens, chuffing hell, dear God, dear me, dearie me, deary me, dear Lord, diggety, eep, egad, egads, ermahgerd, fancy that, flaming Nora, flipping heck, flipping Nora, fuark, fuck me, fucking hell, fucking Nora, gad so, Gadsbodikins, gadsbud, gadzooks, gaw, gee, gee whiz, gee willikers, geeminy, geez, geez Louise, geshmak, get out of town, glory be, God Almighty, God in heaven, God's teeth, good golly, golly, golly gee willikers, golly gosh, good God, good gracious, good gravy, good grief, good heavens, good Lord, goodness, goodness gracious, goodness gracious me, goodness me, googly-moogly, gorblimey, Gordon Bennett, gosh, gosh all hemlock, gracious, gramercy, great balls of fire, great Caesar, great Caesar's ghost, great googly moogly, great Scott, gyatt, hallo, hello, heavens, heavens above, heavens to Betsy, heavens to Murgatroyd, hell's bells, hey, heyday, hold up, holy buckets, holy cannoli, holy cow, holy crap, holy crap on a cracker, holy cricket, holy crickets, holy crud, holy dignity, holy doodle, holy fuck, holy fuck knuckles, holy fudge, holy guacamole, holy Hannah, holy hell, holy kamoley, holy kamoly, holy macaroni, holy mackerel, holy magnum, holy moley, holy moly, holy man, holy Moses, Holy Mother, Holy Mother of God, holy ravioli, holy shit, holy stromboli, holy smoke, holy Toledo, hooly dooly, hot damn, I'll be, I'll be a dirty bird!, I'll be a monkey's uncle, I'll be a son of a bitch, I'll be a son of a gun, I'll be blowed, I'll be bound, I'll be buggered, I'll be damned, I'll be danged, I'll be darned, I'll be dashed, I'll be dipped, I'll be dipped in shit, I'll be hanged, I'll be hornswoggled, I'll be jiggered, I'll be shot, imagine that, I'm blowed, I say, Janey Mack, Jaysus, Jeebus, jeepers, jeepers creepers, jeez, jeez Louise, jeezy peeps, jeezy-peezy, Jerusalem crickets, Jesum Crow, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus fuck, Jesus H. Christ, Mary and Joseph, Jesus Murphy, Jiminy Cricket, jings, jinkies, Judas Priest, jumping Jehoshaphat, jumping Jesus, Jupiter, knock me down with a feather, knock me over with a feather, land sakes, lauks, lawks, lawks a-mercy, lawl, leapin' lizards, Lord, Lord be praised, Lord love a duck, lordy, mama mia, mamma mia, man alive, mercy sakes, Mother of God, mother of Pearl, my, my conscience, my giddy aunt, my heavens, my sainted aunt, my sainted uncle, my God, my goodness, my gosh, my Lord, my my, my word, no way, O gemini, ods bodikin, odsfish, odzookens, oh, oh em gee, ohmigod, oh my, oh my days, oh my God, oh my Goddess, oh my goodness, oh my goodness gracious, oh my gosh, oh my hell, oh my heck, oh my fuck, oh my life, oh my Lord, oh my stars, oh my word, oi, OMG, omigod, omigosh, peas and rice, please, praise the Lord, rah, ruddy hell, ruddy Nora, sacré bleu, sakes alive, 'sblood, 'sdeath, shart, 'sheart, sheesh, shit fire and save matches, shitting Nora, shiver my timbers, shut my mouth, shut the front door, slap my ass and call me Judy, slap my ass and call me Sally, snakes alive, sodding hell, son of a gun, stone me, stone the crows, strewth, strike me pink, 'struth, suffering centipedes, suffering Moses, suffering Sappho, suffering succotash, sweet Grandma on stilts, sweet Jesus, sweet Mary, sweet mother of God, sweet mother of Jesus, waow, well, I never, what, what do you know, whoa, whoah, wow, wowee, wowzers, ye gods, yikes, yikes bikes, you don't say, yowzah, zoiks, zoinks, ZOMG, ZOMFG, zooterkins, zound, zounds, zowie
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noun
Clipping of psychiatry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, informal, often, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of psychiatry.
A psychiatric hospital or other treatment facility; also, a psychiatric department or ward in such a facility.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, informal, often, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of psychology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, informal, often, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of psychiatrist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, informal, often
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of psychologist; also, a clipping of psychoanalyst.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, informal, often
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychoanalysis, psychology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping 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”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, informal, often, rare, slang, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of psychic or psychic bid (“a bid intended to mislead opponents by giving a false impression about one's hand of playing cards”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, informal, often, slang, transitive
Topics: bridge, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of psychedelic rock (“a genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, electronic music, folk music, jazz, and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, informal, often, slang, transitive, uncountable
Topics: bridge, entertainment, games, lifestyle, music
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Clipping of psychoanalyse (“to treat (someone) using psychoanalysis”); also, to carry out psychological testing on (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, clipping, informal, often, transitive
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychoanalysis, psychology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Chiefly followed by out: to analyse (something), especially psychologically; also (generally), to work out (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, broadly, informal, often, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Often followed by out: to deceive, intimidate, or otherwise manipulate (someone or oneself) emotionally or using psychology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, informal, often, reflexive, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Often 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, informal, often, reflexive, transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Of 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, informal, intransitive, often, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Followed by out: to become mentally confused or disturbed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, attributive, informal, intransitive, often, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make (a bid) intended to mislead opponents by giving a false impression about one's hand of playing cards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, informal, often, slang, transitive
Topics: bridge, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To deceive (an opponent or opponents) with such a psychic bid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, informal, often, slang, transitive
Topics: bridge, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make a bid intended to mislead opponents by giving a false impression about one's hand of playing cards; to make a psychic bid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, informal, intransitive, often, slang, transitive
Topics: bridge, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
The adjective is a clipping of psychedelic (adjective). The noun is a clipping of psychedelic rock.
The verb is a clipping of psychologize. The interjection is probably derived from the verb.
Clipping of psychiatry and psychology.
Clipping of psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and psychologist.
The noun is a clipping of psychic (noun). The verb is a clipping of psychic (adjective) in psychic bid. It is attested slightly earlier than the noun.
Clipping of psychoanalyse.
Across languages
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
