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to trip out

to trip out

3 9.8
Feel strange and see or hear things after taking drugs
  • phrasal verb
  • /trɪp aʊt/
  • NSFW
translation icon : alterarse
  • Looks like somebody's tripping out.

He starts doing a bunch of drugs, trips out, is under all sorts of investigation.

Examples

  • This song has meaning, not just hours of John, Paul, George, and Ringo tripping out on acid.

    Blog text (11)

  • And either it didn't happen the way they thought it was going to be once they achieved success or they tripped out all the way because they're successful.

  • Sometimes I trip out to acid.

    Slacker (1991)

  • I was wondering how your friend could trip out by herself and not look for you.

    Blog text (2)

  • I feel bad for you now, all tripping out by yourself and all.

    Blog text (2)

  • It takes effect in about a minute and she'll trip out for about half an hour.

    Altered States (1980)

  • In fact, sometimes I just trip out looking at his IMDb, here he is Bryan Singer.

  • He starts doing a bunch of drugs, trips out, is under all sorts of investigation.

    I've Had It

  • We eat a little 'shrooms to kind of trip out a little bit, look at the lights, all the sparkly lights.

    The Night Before (2015)

  • Listening to the music, I started to trip out as the colorful lights danced around me.

Synonyms

to get high
vsto trip out
  • NSFW
112 9.3

Feel very happy and different after taking drugs or alcohol

is more about feeling euphoric or relaxed than seeing imaginary things
to trip
vsto trip out
  • NSFW
103 9.5

To see things that are not real after taking drugs

is broader, includes mood changes and becoming stoned
to hallucinate
vsto trip out
75 7.4

To see or hear things that are not there

is usually about drug related altered states including euphoria
to get off
vsto trip out
  • NSFW
24 9.9

To become high from using drugs

is broader, covering altered moods beyond simple intoxication
to turn on
vsto trip out
  • NSFW
8 9.8

To take drugs so you feel high

is the general idea of altered mental or emotional states from substances
to trippin'
vsto trip out
  • NSFW
9.9

To see or hear things that are not real, often because of drugs

is broader, covers various drug induced mental or emotional changes
hallucinating
vsto trip out
7.7

Seeing or hearing things that are not real

in this key sense refers more to drug induced mood and consciousness change

Antonyms

to sober up
33 4.6

To stop being drunk and feel normal again

How Intense

freak out
  • NSFW
3 8.2
to trip out
  • NSFW
3 9.8
to get high
  • NSFW
112 9.3

Surface Forms

trip out infinitive
tripped out past
tripped out past participle
tripping out present participle
trips out third person singular

Morphology

trip + out

The verb 'trip' (to hallucinate) plus the particle 'out' yield a metaphorical extension meaning to become overwhelmed, emotionally unbalanced, or freak out; a learner who knows the drug-related sense of 'trip' and the intensifying role of 'out' can partly infer this. However, the sense is informal, slangy and broader than literal hallucination (covers emotional/irrational reactions), so the exact meaning and pragmatic register are not fully predictable to a B1 learner without exposure.

Etymology

Trip out comes from the 1960s idea of a trip as a mind 'journey' when people used psychedelic drugs. Adding out gives the image of leaving normal reality, so it means 'to get high' or have an altered mental state.