psych

CEFRB2

/saɪk/

noun

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01
noun
The mind and emotions, especially as studied by psychology.
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noun
Extra detail
Clipping of psychiatry., A psychiatric hospital or other treatment facility; also, a psychiatric department or ward in such a facility.

Examples

Are you going to psych yourself up before the match?
How do you psych yourself up before matches?

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

Clipping of psychology.
Psychology or psychiatry.
Clipping of psychiatry.

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In context

He had to be involuntarily committed to the psych ward.
Hip hop always gets me psyched, so I put it on before a race.
I took psych in my freshman year at college.

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He tried to blank his opponent by staring him down before the match.

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"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.
2016 March 6, Joanna Mazurkiewicz, “Detective Lee”, in Skimming the Surface (Love & Hate; 4), [United States]: Joanna Mazurkiewicz, published 2020, →ISBN
A fool who had never seen reality would think an old lady is harmless or weak. Perhaps the morons in the outside world believe an old lady locked-up in psych is akin to a sweet little grandmother, a poor old dear who is just a little confused. Such a fool does not understand the truth of some psychiatric "patients" or the reality of how that type of "patient" can de-compensate suddenly, oftentimes with no warning, and go berserk on another "patient" or on a BHT with super-human like strength so much like a person in the old movies who is hopped up on PCP.
2014 August 15, Desha Blue, “News 2013”, in Psychiatric Abuse Poetry …: Shattering the Bloody Glass Ceiling, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN
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.
2025 June 30, Lexy Timms, “Clay”, in Not Another Love Story, part 2, [United States]: Dark Shadow Publishing, →ISBN
[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.
1978, Lawrence Durrell, “Talking Back”, in Livia: Or Buried Alive […] ([The Avignon Quintet; 2]), London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 178
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.
1979 August 18, Susan Shanbaum, quotee, “The Diversity of Women’s Music: Berkeley Women’s Music Collective”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, Boston, Mass.: The Bromfield Street Educational Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 3

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Origin

noun

Clipping of psychiatry and psychology.

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noun

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He tried to blank— his opponent by staring him down before the match.

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noun

He tried to blank his opponent by staring him down before the match.