psych

noun

1. (informal, uncountable)Psychology or psychiatry.

   “I took psych my freshman year in university.”

2. (countable, informal)A psychologist; a psychiatrist.

   “She had attended a conference of psychs at which he had presided and they had taken a fancy to each other.”

3. (countable, informal, uncountable)A psychiatric hospital; psychiatric treatment.

   “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.”

   ““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.”

   “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.”

adj

1. (informal)Psychedelic.

   “curtains with psych colors”

   “a psych band; a psych album; psych-rock and psych-folk music”

2. (informal)Psychiatric.

   “involuntarily committed to the psych ward”

verb

1. (informal, reflexive, transitive)To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up).

   “Hip hop always gets me psyched, so I put it on before a race.”

   “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.”

2. (informal, transitive)To intimidate (someone) emotionally or using psychology (also psych out).
3. (informal, transitive)To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.

intj

1. (informal, slang)Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor.

   “Here, have fifty dollars. Psych! That was two dollars!”

   “I broke up with my ex girl. Here's her number. Psych! That's the wrong number!”

2. (informal, slang)An interjection of surprised happiness.

   “Psych! I just found my missing bracelet!”