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head game en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (informal) An attempt to psychologically manipulate or intimidate someone.
    • I don't do moody or wounded or stern. I can't play head games. 2015, Michael Moorcock -, The Whispering Swarm: Book One of The Sanctuary of the White Friars, →ISBN:
    • 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. 2013, Sereena Nightshade, Black Market, →ISBN, page 226:
    • Sandra got the distinct impression that he was playing some kind of head game with her. 2014, Derek J. Goodman, The Contamination of Sandra Wolfe, →ISBN:
  2. A mental pursuit or obsession.
    • Learning is definitely a head game. 2014, Kay J. Mahne, Capturing Minds by Capturing Hearts, →ISBN:
    • Distance plays into the head game of “what if.” 2014, Robert C. Vallieres, Jacquelyn M. Howard, Wounded Warriors: A Soldier's Story of Healing through Birds, →ISBN, page 28:
    • Another was able to bring into popularity puzzles, conundrums, and quiet " head games" or contests of memory and quick-wittedness. 1900, The School Journal - Volume 61, page 669:
  3. Skill at fellatio.
    • When it, come to sex don't test my skills 'Cause my head game have you head over heels 2003, “Magic Stick”, in La Bella Mafia, performed by Lil' Kim and 50 Cent:
    • They both knew the reason he always came back. Her head game was excellent. 2010, Wahida Clark, What's Really Hood!: A Collection of Tales from the Streets, →ISBN:
    • She went to work like the cock-sucking champion that she was. This Bitch had always had crazy “head game.” 2012, Jackie Ricci, Michael “El Jefe” Archer, Trunk-Space: The Retribution of a Psychopath, →ISBN, page 119:

Forms

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head-game alternative lexicographic
headgame alternative lexicographic
head games Number=Plur lexicographic

head game en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of head-game.
    alt of head-game
    • All to be head gamed with official lures, which look on, through their guarded masks. 2007, Richard Morris, A Denial of Aesthetic Principle, →ISBN, page 29:

Forms

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head games Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
head gamed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
head gamed Tense=Past lexicographic
head gaming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
head-game alternative lexicographic
headgame alternative lexicographic

Translations (2)

de Psychospielchen (psychological manipulation) · fi henkinen painostus (psychological manipulation)