mindfuck

noun
/maɪnd.fʌk/UK

Etymology

Compound of mind + fuck.

  1. derived from *pewǵ- — “to strike, punch, stab
  2. derived from *fukkōną
  3. derived from *fukka
  4. derived from *fuccian
  5. inherited from *fukken
  6. compounded as mindfuck — “mind + fuck

Definitions

  1. Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates the mind of another…

    Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates the mind of another person.

    • The actual naked fact of Establishment power in the person of the police was a real mindfuck.
    • Well, Cohaagen, I have to hand it to you. It's the best mind-fuck yet.
    • This is a total mindfuck. I guess you know we broke up.
  2. To intentionally destabilize, confuse, or manipulate the mind of another person.

    • Two young Canadians get mindfucked by a giant American, but they kill him in the end and then start in on each other.
    • In response to all of this Bavarian Illuminati paranoia, Kerry—in the midst of Garrison's probe — decided to mindfuck Garrison all the more by sending out suggesting that he (Kerry) was an agent of the Bavarian Illuminati.
    • I hated it when other entities mindfucked me.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mindfuck. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA