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headfuck

/ ˈhɛdfʌk /

noun

  1. taboo.
    an experience that is wildly exciting or impressive
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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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