mindfuck

See also: mind fuck

English

Alternative forms

• mind-fuck, mind fuck

Etymology

Compound of mind +‎ fuck.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /maɪnd.fʌk/

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Noun

mindfuck (plural mindfucks)

1. (slang, vulgar) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates the mind of another person.

   Synonyms: (vulgar) brainfuck, (vulgar) headfuck, mindscrew

   • 1968, Student Union for Peace Action, Our Generation, page 66:

     The actual naked fact of Establishment power in the person of the police was a real mindfuck.

   • 1990, Total Recall, spoken by Quaid:

     Well, Cohaagen, I have to hand it to you. It's the best mind-fuck yet.

   • 1996, Christopher Kyle, the monogamist, page 53:

     This is a total mindfuck. I guess you know we broke up.

   • 2001, Mick Farren, Darklost, page 311:

     It's a mindfuck. It's just lasers and shit, like the haunted house in Disneyland.

   • 2006, Ska Child, David Harris, Skavoovee, page 106:

     The first four weeks of basic training were designed to be a total mindfuck. It started from the moment they stepped off the bus and were punished for not knowing how to stand at attention, even though they'd never been taught.

   • 2020 February 26, Will Dunn, “William Gibson on the apocalypse: “it’s been happening for at least 100 years””, in New Statesman‎^[1]:

     Trump, he observes, will “do something, and then present it the very next day as something that is going to have absolutely the opposite effect. And he knows that. It’s a mind-fuck, for want of a better term.”

Derived terms

• mindfucker
• mindfuckery

Translations

something that intentionally manipulates the mind of another person

• Estonian: ajunuss, maindfakk
• French: confusion (fr) f, déroute (fr) f, embrouille (fr) f
• Hungarian: agyzsibbasztó (hu)
• Lithuanian: protpisis
• Russian: мозгоёбство n (mozgojóbstvo), мозгоебательство (ru) n (mozgojebatelʹstvo)

Verb

mindfuck (third-person singular simple present mindfucks, present participle mindfucking, simple past and past participle mindfucked)

1. (slang, vulgar) To intentionally destabilize, confuse, or manipulate the mind of another person.
   • 1974, Connie Brissenden, The Factory Lab Anthology, page 10:

     Two young Canadians get mindfucked by a giant American, but they kill him in the end and then start in on each other.

   • 2003, Adam Gorightly et al., The Prankster and the Conspiracy, page 136:

     In response to all of this Bavarian Illuminati paranoia, Kerry—in the midst of Garrison's probe — decided to mindfuck Garrison all the more by sending out suggesting that he (Kerry) was an agent of the Bavarian Illuminati.

   • 2007, Jackie Kessler, The Road to Hell, page 67:

     I hated it when other entities mindfucked me.

   • 2023 October 8, HarryBlank, “Taking the Lead”, in SCP Foundation‎^[2], archived from the original on 26 May 2024:

     "You sick fuck." Ibanez was hopping from foot to foot, and McInnis suspected she was thinking about football kicking his head. It would be an easy shot. "We should overdose you on amnestics and push you out the front door. See how long it takes for anyone to bother trying to mindfuck you."

Translations

to intentionally destabilize, confuse or manipulate the mind of another person

• French: confusionner (fr), dérouter (fr), embrouiller (fr)
• Russian: ебать мозг (jebatʹ mozg)