mindfuck

English

Noun

mindfuck (plural mindfucks)

1. (vulgar) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person.
   • 2006, Ska Child, David Harris, Skavoovee, p. 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.

   • 2001, Mick Farren, Darklost, p. 311:

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

   • 1996, Christopher Kyle, the monogamist, p. 53:

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

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

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

Derived terms

• mindfuckery

Synonyms

• brainfuck (vulgar), headfuck (vulgar), mindscrew

Translations

something that intentionally manipulates the mind of another person

• Estonian: ajunuss (et), maindfakk (et)

• Lithuanian: protpisis (lt)

Verb

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

1. (vulgar) To intentionally destabilize, confuse or manipulate the mind of another person.
   • 2007, Jackie Kessler, The Road to Hell‎, p. 67:

     I hated it when other entities mindfucked me.

   • 2003, Adam Gorightly et al., The Prankster and the Conspiracy, p. 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.

   • 1974, Connie Brissenden, The Factory Lab Anthology‎, p. 10:

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