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PSYCHO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psycho mean? 

PSYCHO (noun)
  The noun PSYCHO has 1 sense:

1. a person afflicted with psychosisplay

  Familiarity information: PSYCHO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PSYCHO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person afflicted with psychosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

psycho; psychotic; psychotic person

Hypernyms ("psycho" is a kind of...):

diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "psycho"):

cataleptic (a person suffering from catalepsy)

paranoiac; paranoid (a person afflicted with paranoia)

schizophrenic (someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia)


 Context examples 


Alternatively, you may have been dealing with a psycho landlord, or a roommate who ate up all your lamb chops and left you with no dinner and only an inch of milk (or almond milk) in the container for coffee.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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