Definition of "psych" []

• To put into the right psychological frame of mind: The coach psyched the team before the game. (verb-transitive)
• To excite emotionally: The children were psyched to see the circus. (verb-transitive)
• To undermine the confidence of by psychological means; intimidate: "Depending on whose personality is stronger, one can more easily psych the other” ( Harold C. Schonberg). (verb-transitive)
• To analyze, solve, or comprehend. (verb-transitive)
• To anticipate or guess the intentions of: "Most others could never approach [his] ability ... to psyche out the opposition's thinking so consistently” ( Steven Brill). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I call it psych, and some of that psych is bound to rub off."
• "This quote from Mises on behavioral psych is relevant to this issue of determinism, too:"
• "Instead, his latest release reaffirms his hunger, and he's named it after one of his first bands, pre-Zeppelin psych rockers Band Of Joy."