psyop

English

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Etymology

Back-formation from psyops.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsaɪɒp/

Noun

psyop (plural psyops)

  1. An instance of psyops: a psychological operation, usually of a clandestine sort.
    • 2009 January 15, Cintra Wilson, “All’s Fair in Beauty and War”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 29 November 2013:
      The psyop wing of Disney’s marketing department is now so hair-raisingly effective that we can only wonder what will become of little girls imprinted so deeply with such cultish brand devotion.
    • 2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
      If the Swift/Kelce pairing is a government psyop, as conservatives want to believe, the CIA sure knows how to stage damn good football.
  2. A psychological operative; a person who participates in psychological operations.

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