trip
trip
1. verb, slang To have an intense hallucinatory experience as a result of a psychoactive drug. A: "What's wrong with Bill?" B: "He's tripping pretty hard on mushrooms." I took too much acid the first time I tried it. I was still tripping nearly 18 hours later!
2. noun, slang A drug-induced hallucinatory experience. I need to wait until this trip wears off before I go anywhere. I had a really bad trip once. I thought I was being chased by man-eating monkeys through a forest made of chocolate!
3. noun, slang An especially exciting, stimulating, or intense experience. Man, living in Japan for six months was a trip! Everything is so different over there! A: "Well, what did you think of skydiving?" B: "Wow, what a trip. I don't think I've ever had so much adrenaline rushing through my body before!"
4. noun, slang An experience typified by a particular aspect or motivation. Used in combinations. Sarah has been on a real power trip ever since she was promoted. You can tell these meetings are mostly just ego trips for the boss.
5. noun, slang A particularly trying, exasperating, or unpleasant person or thing. The new manager is a trip, huh? I hope he chills out soon. Putting my new computer together on my own was a real trip. It took me nearly eight hours before I got it up and running!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
trip
1. n. a prison sentence; a trip up the river. (Underworld.) Yeah, me and Lefty both was on a little trip for a few years.
2. n. a high from a drug. (Drugs.) Me and Sid went on a little trip.
3. in. to experience a high from a drug, especially LSD. Don’t bother Bart. He’s tripping.
4. n. a bad drug experience. (Drugs.) Boy, did I ever have a trip with that stuff!
5. n. an annoying person or thing. She is such a trip.
6. in. to leave. Time to trip. See ya.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- a good trip
- a guilt trip
- a trip to the woodshed
- bad trip
- bum trip
- bummer
- down trip
- ego trip
- free trip
- good trip
- guilt trip
- have a good trip
- have a nice trip
- have a safe trip
- head trip
- lay a (heavy) trip on (one)
- lay a guilt trip on
- lay a guilt trip on (one)
- lay a guilt trip on someone
- lay a heavy trip on someone
- lay a trip on
- lay a trip on someone
- on a power trip
- on a trip
- power trip
- put a guilt trip on (one)
- road trip
- roll/slip/trip off the tongue
- round trip
- round-trip ticket
- send (one) on a guilt trip
- take a trip down memory lane
- trip
- trip along
- trip balls
- trip for biscuits
- trip off the tongue
- trip on
- trip on (someone or something)
- trip out
- trip over (one's) tongue
- trip over (someone or something)
- trip the light fantastic
- trip the light fantastic, to
- trip to the woodshed
- trip up
- tripped out