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trip

trip

122 9.0
An unusual or exciting experience often caused by drugs
  • noun
  • /trɪp/
  • NSFW
translation icon : 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.

  • 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

44 1.0

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

To stumble or fall because you are clumsy

Dance in a lively, graceful way to music

1 9.9

A strong private scolding for someone who did something wrong

To dance in a lively, elegant way to music

Compounds

95 1.0

An organized visit by students to learn outside the classroom

46 1.6

A journey to a place and back to where you started

guilt trip
  • Informal
13 4.9

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

11 1.4

A short journey to a place and back

power trip
  • Offensive
9 7.8

Wanting to feel important by being strict or mean to others

A ticket that lets you travel to a place and back

ego trip
  • Informal
5 7.4

An action you do to make yourself feel more important

3 6.1

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

A journey taken to enjoy yourself rather than for work

round trip
  • Specialized
1 3.9

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

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

The best part of a trip that people remember most

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

A sudden journey you make without planning

A journey that includes exciting activities and some risk

round-trip light time
  • Specialized
9.6

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

trip line
  • Archaic
9.1

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

trip wire
  • Jargon
8.4

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

6.5

A small mistake that causes embarrassment or trouble

How Intense

hallucination
140 7.5
trip
  • NSFW
122 9.0
high
  • NSFW
5 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.