head-game
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.30 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of head game.
noun
Alternative form of head game.
verb
To psychologically manipulate; to gaslight.
Example Sentences
- "They wanted him, he knew that, but they wanted to play head-games all the time."
- "Some guy's you play with, beat you every time, no matter what you do you simply can't win. Others, you're just that much better than they are, but it doesn't matter, you fit right, the games flow, no head-games and you enjoy every minute."
- "Back when I was learning how to quit, it wasn't so easy to tell a friend or anyone else about any issues I may have had and why I needed to quit, because of all the head-games people appear to play."
- "That is the problem with the “What if” head-game. It is played and replayed, again and again in one's head, but there is actually no solution that one would like to see."
- "Billie was still being persistently head-gamed by the male clientele."
- "In the cab back downtown,the one thing I head-gamed myself about was Jessica's sexual history."