psyop
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈsaɪˌɒp/
- Jargon
:
operación psicológica
- During the campaign, the psyop team used targeted messaging to affect the enemy's morale.
- psychological operations
- psyop operation
- psyops specialist
It's like, does the Jalisco Nutrition cartel really exist or is that a psyop?
- It's like, does the Jalisco Nutrition cartel really exist or is that a psyop?
- We've got this, you know, this possible threat and that we're linking up with the Psyops guys to get, you know, another set of eyes on him.
- Leave the Indigia live just for Psyops and the sappers.
- It was initially I made an offer to train PSYOPS for free.
Examples
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Good read from a Pakistani who dares question the Pakistani military psyop.
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That was his reaction to the psyop that they were talking about.
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There will be a lot of people who will be suckered into the emotional aspect of this psyop.
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Smells like a psyop mission; I personally watched the live feeds for the New York area where the pictures were taken; I did not see any major flooding.
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The UN's Education First program is using the Malala psyop to create an emotion-based campaign to get every student in that country enrolled in a pro-Western for-profit school.
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The military conducted a psyop to sway public opinion in favor of their operations.
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Effective psyop operations can significantly alter the perceptions of the local population.
Synonyms
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8.4
A military action that tries to change what people think or feel
How Influential
- Jargon
1
9.9
- Specialized
8
7.0
291
6.2
39
2.6
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
psyop = P + S + Y + O + P
Psyop is an initialism (psychological operation) rather than a productive morphological formation, so learners cannot derive its meaning from the letter components alone.
Etymology
The word psyop comes from shortening psychological and operation, where psychological means 'mind' and appears in the common word psychology, and operation means 'a planned action'. So a psyop is a planned action to influence people's minds, feelings, or behavior.