psych adj.
1. psychiatric.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Sweet Daddy 56: I hear docs specially psych docs make a fortune. | |
| in Body Shop 94: They put you in the psych-ward hospital. | |
| House of Slammers 205: You cain’t do no psych-job on me, man! [...] You cain’t deal wid my psych-problems. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Candy 262: She was pretty zonked on psych drugs. | |
| Grand Central Winter (1999) 130: They could arrest him and take him to a psych ward for observation. | |
| Intractable [ebook] I was suicidal and required psych treatment. | |
| Disassembled Man [ebook] They sent me to the psych ward, which was a hell of a thing. They chained me spread-eagle to a bed and shot me with a drug called Prolixin. | |
| Running the Books 195: People who work with [...] psych patients. | |
| Alphaville (2011) 345: Rakowitz was a screw-loose kid [...] who’d been in and out of psych wards. | |
 | Newser On Line 9 Feb. 🌐 There could be people, [...] stuck in psych wards that have that disease. | |
| Heat [ebook] ‘And your aunt?’ ‘Went gaga. She’s in a psych ward’. | |
| Riker’s 118: Some people were so out of their minds [...] and it took them months to get to a psych hospital for a 730 mental health evaluation. |
2. psychological.
| Mr Jive-Ass Nigger 192: She then looked at him long and steadily. What was she doing, pulling one of those American college-girl psyche-games? | |
| Animal Factory 128: Man, I should get a good psych report . . . I’m the most normal person in this madhouse. | |
| House of Slammers 187: It isn’t necessary for you to use obvious psych-techniques on me. | |
| (con. 1967) Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 25: Macho is a psych job. You’ve got to psych, or focus yourself. | |
| Pain Killers 64: A sketchy psych eval shed no light but added details. |
3. (US drugs) psychedelic.
| Voices from the Love Generation 225: ‘The whole of Haight-Ashbury was the community.’ ‘And the Psych Shop was its focus.’. |