to trip
- verb
- /trɪp/
- NSFW
- Man, don't trip.
Examples
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Are you guys tripping?
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Well, dude, he's tripping balls, man.
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You are gonna trip when you hear this.
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Man, y'all know if we do this, our parents gonna trip out.
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Why am I tripping on shit I know is there?
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If you start tripping out on something, they know how to make you feel better.
Academic text (2005) -
It's not every day you see a holy man tripping on shrooms.
Fiction book (1999) -
Don't trip out.
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But one night I'm in Paris and I'm just tripping on acid and sipping lattes and such.
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After taking the psychedelic drug, he began to trip, experiencing vivid colors and unusual patterns.
Synonyms
To see or hear things that are not there
Feel strange and see or hear things after taking drugs
To see or hear things that are not real, often because of drugs
Seeing or hearing things that are not real
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Informal
An intense mental experience that makes you think deeply or feel strong emotions
- Specialized
The time it takes for a light signal to travel to a spacecraft or planet and back
How Intense
Surface Forms
Etymology
Trip (to experience hallucinations) uses the picture of 'travel' again — a helpful way to remember is to think of 'taking a trip' inside your own mind. So when someone trips on a drug, their mind seems to travel to strange places.