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head game

head game noun: an attempt to psychologically manipulate or intimidate someone. Also the alternative form of head-game.

Noun

head game (plural head games)

  1. (informal) An attempt to psychologically manipulate or intimidate someone.
    • The show boating, head games, phony fronts and near literal spider's webs tossed out as glistening and beautiful nets to capture the prize or the perceived prize always amazed me.2013, Sereena Nightshade, Black Market, →ISBN, page 226
    • Sandra got the distinct impression that he was playing some kind of head game with her.2014, Derek J. Goodman, The Contamination of Sandra Wolfe, →ISBN
  2. A mental pursuit or obsession.
    • Another was able to bring into popularity puzzles, conundrums, and quiet " head games" or contests of memory and quick-wittedness.1900, The School Journal - Volume 61, page 669
    • Learning is definitely a head game.2014, Kay J. Mahne, Capturing Minds by Capturing Hearts, →ISBN
  3. Skill at fellatio.
    • When it, come to sex don't test my skills
      'Cause my head game have you head over heels2003, “Magic Stick”, in La Bella Mafia, performed by Lil' Kim and 50 Cent
    • They both knew the reason he always came back. Her head game was excellent.2010, Wahida Clark, What's Really Hood!: A Collection of Tales from the Streets, →ISBN

Also used as

head game is also the alternative form of head-game.

Examples of head game in a sentence

  • Distance plays into the head game of “what if.”2014, Robert C. Vallieres, Jacquelyn M. Howard, Wounded Warriors: A Soldier's Story of Healing through Birds, →ISBN, page 28:
  • This Bitch had always had crazy “head game.”2012, Jackie Ricci, Michael “El Jefe” Archer, Trunk-Space: The Retribution of a Psychopath, →ISBN, page 119:

Forms of head game

Noun
pluralhead games
alternative formhead-game
alternative formheadgame
Verb
third-person singular presenthead games
present participlehead gaming
past participlehead gamed
pasthead gamed

Questions about head game

What does head game mean?
Head game means an attempt to psychologically manipulate or intimidate someone.
How do you use head game in a sentence?
Distance plays into the head game of “what if.”
What part of speech is head game?
Head game is a noun.
What is the plural of head game?
The plural of head game is head games.

Words near head game in the dictionary

  1. head earing
  2. head fake
  3. head fakes
  4. head first
  5. head for the hills
  6. head game
  7. head gamed
  8. head games
  9. head gaming
  10. head gasket
  11. head gaskets

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