head trip

head trip

1. A display of superiority and self-centeredness; an ego trip. Are you on a head trip? I'm not one of your lowly interns, so you can get your own coffee! The boss must have been on a real head trip when he decided to name the building after himself.
2. slang An experience using psychoactive drugs. Come on, you went to Woodstock—you can't tell me you've never had a head trip before.
See also: head, trip
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

head trip

1. n. a session with a head drug. (Drugs.) Bob had his first head trip last night.
2. n. an ego trip. Come down from your head trip and see if you can get along with the rest of us.
See also: head, trip
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • embark on
  • embark on (something)
  • launch forth on (something)
  • launch forth upon (something)
  • trip up
  • bum trip
  • have a good trip
  • have a nice trip
  • have a safe trip
  • lay a trip on someone
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A soul-cleansing by hellfire does wonders to jolt Patterson's suppressed memories on the Radiohead-inspired head trip, "Hold It To the Fire".
Heinlein's 1960 short story "--All You Zombies--and if it's better in the intimate early stages than in the more grandiose later passages, all in all it's the sort of boldly illogical head trip that gives preposterousness a good name.
Kapranos fantasizes about forging a new utopia for him and his would-be lover on the spacey, eight-minute electro-pop opus "Lucid Dreams." After the impassioned singer belts, "I'm going to give my aimless love/My angry heart and my desire," the song turns into psychedelic head trip with a transcendent, four-and-a-half-minute instrumental that is destined to make a deeply cognitive connection with the listener.
the World" or Gaspar Noe's subjective head trip, "Enter the Void" (seen through the eyes of a dead drug dealer wedged between the underworld and the afterlife).
realize life on Earth beats life on Mars on "Spaceman." Over a propulsive, New Order-inspired mix of guitars, bass, drums and synths, Flowers musters up his inner Bowie and whips up a delusional head trip of a hook-laden chorus that's out of this world (despite the singer possibly being out of his mind).
It's a head trip, alright, as we return to the psychedelic decade when all they needed was love - and some recreational drugs - to get by.
With imaginative handling, this freewheeling juggernaut of a head trip, its assorted visual treatments rendered in relative degrees of awkwardness and artfulness, could catch on with hip ands worldwide.