✈️ A journey 🤦 To make stumble 🌈 An intense experience 🔌 To activate device 🌈 To hallucinate 🤦 A stumble 🔌 A switch device 😳 A mistake ✈️ To travel

trip

93 9.0

An unusual or exciting experience often caused by drugs

noun
/trɪp/

NSFW

: viaje (psicodélico)

John kept telling himself he was having a delayed drug trip, a hallucination.
trip back in time

My mother's been having one long mescaline trip her whole life.

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Examples

Ling Yeah, man, my brain is a little bit fried from the trip, but I'm happy to be home.
And we're about to take a weird trip to just over there.
I feel this is turning into a bad trip.

My Old Ass (2024)
To journey into a work of art is tantamount to taking a trip into a time-space continuum.

Academic text (1998)
After taking the hallucinogenic drug, he experienced a wild trip filled with vibrant colors and surreal landscapes.
The author's latest book takes readers on an imaginative trip through the dimensions of the mind and reality.
During the meditation session, many participants reported having a profound trip that made them question their perspectives on life.

Synonyms

head trip

vstrip

Informal

1 8.7

An intense mental experience that makes you think deeply or feel strong emotions

is about vivid sensory changes and hallucinations often caused by substances

Idioms

on a trip

211 1.0

Traveling away from home to visit another place for holiday or work

to trip the light fantastic

Archaic

1 9.9

Dance in a lively, graceful way to music

trip to the woodshed

Informal

1 9.9

A strong private scolding for someone who did something wrong

to trip over one's own feet

Informal

6.8

To stumble or fall because you are clumsy

to trip the light fantastic toe

Archaic

9.9

To dance in a lively, elegant way to music

Compounds

field trip

101 1.0

An organized visit by students to learn outside the classroom

round trip

48 1.6

A journey to a place and back to where you started

guilt trip

Informal

22 4.9

A feeling of guilt someone gives you to make you do something

quick trip

12 1.4

A short journey to a place and back

power trip

Offensive

12 7.8

Wanting to feel important by being strict or mean to others

trip wire

11 6.1

A low wire that makes a trap, alarm, or camera go off when someone walks into it

round-trip ticket

10 2.1

A ticket that lets you travel to a place and back

ego trip

Informal

7 7.4

An action you do to make yourself feel more important

pleasure trip

2 3.0

A journey taken to enjoy yourself rather than for work

scouting trip

1 3.4

A short trip to find out about an area

head trip

Informal

1 8.7

An intense mental experience that makes you think deeply or feel strong emotions

spontaneous trip

1 3.9

A sudden journey you make without planning

the highlight of the trip

1 2.1

The best part of a trip that people remember most

trip line

Archaic

1 9.1

A thin rope used in logging to free a hook on a log from a safe distance

adventurous trip

1 3.5

A journey that includes exciting activities and some risk

trip wire

Jargon

1 8.4

A small military force placed to make other forces respond if it is attacked

ocean trip

1 1.4

A journey across the ocean by ship or boat

trip to Xanadu

Literature

1 9.9

A journey to a perfect, beautiful place in your dreams

trip-up

1 6.5

A small mistake that causes embarrassment or trouble

round trip

Specialized

1 3.9

The time it takes for data to go and come back over a network

round-trip light time

Specialized

9.6

The time it takes for a light signal to travel to a spacecraft or planet and back

How Intense

hallucination

127 7.5

trip

NSFW

93 9.0

high

NSFW

54 7.9

Surface Forms

trip singular

trips plural

Etymology

Trip (an exciting or strange experience) comes from the idea of 'travel' — a helpful way to remember it is to think of the mind taking a short travel to unusual places. That's why a wild or surprising event is called a trip.