headgameとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

head-game (三人称単数 現在形 head-games, 現在分詞 head-gaming, 過去形および過去分詞形 head-gamed)

1. To psychologically manipulate; to gaslight.
   • 2000, Fiona Giles, Chick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Were One?, page 66:

     Billie was still being persistently head-gamed by the male clientele.

   • 2001, Howard Roughan, The Up and Comer, →ISBN:

     In the cab back downtown,the one thing I head-gamed myself about was Jessica's sexual history.

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:

     It was one reason he'd even been able to stick out his nine residential months here with twenty-one other newly detoxed housebreakers, hoods, whores, fired execs, Avon ladies, subway musicians, beer-bloated construction workers, vagrants, indignant car salesmen, bulimic trauma-mamas, bunko artists, mincing pillow-biters, North End hard guys, pimply kids with electric noserings, denialridden housewives and etc., all jonesing and head-gaming and mokus and grieving and basically whacked out and producing nonstopping output 24-7-365.

   • 2016, Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once, →ISBN:

     Like UnREAL's Rachel, Pope's career success depends on her facility with lying, cheating, and head-gaming others—can that ever be truly progressive?

アナグラム

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