psyops

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Etymology

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Clipping of psychological operations.

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Noun

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psyops pl (normally plural, singular psyop)

  1. Techniques used by military and police forces to influence the beliefs, emotions and behaviour of citizens.
    • 2018, Carl Miller, quoting Mark Laity, chapter 6, in The Death of the Gods [] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:
      ‘Russia Today’, he said, his finger marking each syllable with a thud on the table in front of us, ‘is psy-ops’—short for psychological operations. [] ‘It is run directly from the Kremlin. It's following Kremlin's narratives. It's a psy-ops operation. And it's black psy-ops.’

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