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5D chess

5D chess noun: an extremely complicated strategy involving deception and ulterior motives, especially in politics.

Noun

5D chess (uncountable)

  1. (humorous) An extremely complicated strategy involving deception and ulterior motives, especially in politics.
    • I'm not here to play 5D chess with Charlie, but he keeps roping me in. I try my best to reroute the conversation off us.2017 October 31, Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie, Lovers Like Us, K.B. Ritchie, →ISBN
    • I have grown to fully trust Donald Trump. He may seem rude, silly, and clumsy from time to time, but he has earned my trust in the past two and a half years as I have followed his every move. He is a genius — a 5D chess player, a man with a huge heart.2024 July 3, Katrina Vaillancourt, quoting Janet, ReQovery: How I Tumbled Down the QAnon Rabbit Hole and Climbed Out, Katrina Vaillancourt & GreenSong Press, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    12D chess

Examples of 5D chess in a sentence

  • Just because everybody assumes everybody's playing 5D chess or, like, isn't a human in some significant way, and that's just not the case."2024 August 13, Nate Silver, quoting Dan Chapsky, On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, Random House, →ISBN:
  • In any other context, this would raise serious concerns, but instead it is explained away as “5D chess,” media distortions, or the actions of rogue staffers.2026 April 22, Scott Ventureyra, “A Tale of Two Forms of TDS”, in Crisis Magazine, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2026:

Synonyms of 5D chess

Origin of 5D chess

Short for five-dimensional chess, suggesting an even more complicated variant of 3D chess or 4D chess.

Questions about 5D chess

What does 5D chess mean?
5D chess means an extremely complicated strategy involving deception and ulterior motives, especially in politics.
How do you use 5D chess in a sentence?
Just because everybody assumes everybody's playing 5D chess or, like, isn't a human in some significant way, and that's just not the case."
What part of speech is 5D chess?
5D chess is a noun.

Words near 5D chess in the dictionary

  1. 5:2 diet
  2. 5:2 diets
  3. 5B
  4. 5Bs
  5. 5BX
  6. 5D chess
  7. 5ever
  8. 5FDP
  9. 5G
  10. 5GL
  11. 5GLs

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