1. psych - Noun
2. psych - Adjective
3. psych - Verb
4. psych - Interjection
Psychology or psychiatry.
I took psych my freshman year in university.
A psychologist; a psychiatrist.
(informal) Psychedelic.
curtains with psych colors
a psych band; a psych album. Psych-rock and psych-folk music.
(informal) Psychiatric.
involuntarily committed to the psych ward
(transitive, reflexive) 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.
(transitive) To intimidate (someone) emotionally or using psychology (also psych out).
(transitive, informal) To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.
(slang) Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor.
Synonym: sike
Here, have fifty dollars. Psych! That was two dollars!
(dated, slang) An interjection of surprised happiness.
Psych! I just found my missing bracelet!
You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can. James Cagney
I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards. Darrell Hammond
I dictated my report; forty recruitments all okayed by the Psych Bureau - counting my own, which I knew would be okayed. I was here, wasn't I? Then I taped a request for assignment to operations; I was sick of recruiting. Robert A. Heinlein
I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes. Claire Danes
I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you. Craig Ferguson
I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people. Chris Kyle