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headfuck
/ ˈhɛdfʌk /
noun
- taboo.an experience that is wildly exciting or impressive
Example Sentences
‘You just crossed over into the Twilight Zone. And it’s a total headfuck.”
Yet, more than the other sections of the exam, blind tasting is a “headfuck,” as one sommelier who’s taken it multiple times told me.
He added: “One comment ruins your day. The headfuck for me has been trying to work out why people dislike me so much.”
In academia, philosopher Michel Foucault called it a “heterotopia”, but most of us might think of it as a bit of a headfuck, a space or place in time that has more meaning or relationship to another space than it might first appear.
Photograph: Gary Connery Archive/Getty Images Deciding which new coinages to allow into the official record of the English language can be a tough and confusing job – or, as the Oxford English Dictionary now acknowledges it is possible to say, a headfuck.
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