mentalist
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Adjective[edit]
mentalist (comparative more mentalist, superlative most mentalist)
- Of or relating to mentalism
Noun[edit]
mentalist (plural mentalists)
- A practitioner of mentalism.
- (UK, slang) An insane person.
- 1997, I'm Alan Partridge (TV series), To Kill a Mocking Alan
- Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint.
- Alan Partridge: Yep.
- Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother.
- Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic! You're a mentalist!
- 2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 39:
- In front a staff sergeant with the new Royal Caledonians was gassing about Scullion and the regiment. 'And this major's a total fucking mentalist,' he said. 'What's mental about him?' asked the lance corporal beside him.
- 1997, I'm Alan Partridge (TV series), To Kill a Mocking Alan
Translations[edit]
practitioner of mentalism
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