Today's slang word of the day is gaslight. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
verb - transitive
- to slowly and methodically psychologically manipulate a person, with the goal of driving them insane.
To celebrate major events in each other's lives, one of the traditions within the department was to gaslight a colleague.
origin
- From the 1938 play Gas Light. For more details, see the Wikipedia article for "Gaslighting".
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
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