May 14 Word of the Day
Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy
Person A: Man, that nutcase Martin Bryant guy shot 35 people in Tasmania!
Person B: No, he wasn't a nutcase, that was just a psyop so the government could have an excuse to ban guns.
Person B: No, he wasn't a nutcase, that was just a psyop so the government could have an excuse to ban guns.
by Mystikan April 11, 2006
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(n.) a word used religiously to stereotype, criticize, insult, and in rare cases to actually tell a person's job. directed to the engineers in the Navy. snypes are grimy, with animal-like instincts, appear in human form and live in the deepest dungeons of the ship.
reporter: so what do you think of engineers?
airman1: i heard snypes are like "one" with the ship, like, they live in the walls or something.
airman2: i've never seen one, but i hear they eat each other to survive down there.
reporter: *swallows heavily* are we talking about the same species here?
airman1: i heard snypes are like "one" with the ship, like, they live in the walls or something.
airman2: i've never seen one, but i hear they eat each other to survive down there.
reporter: *swallows heavily* are we talking about the same species here?
by anexana August 29, 2014