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tripper

tripper

1 9.9
A person who is seeing things that are not real after taking a drug
  • noun
  • /ˈtrɪpər/
  • NSFW
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  • So all you troopers out there, all you wee-hour trippers and dippers and war-wiggies and scaredy-cats, you can take heart in that.
  • Night Tripper
  • Day Tripper

Examples

  • A tripper, he fought Fate in the middle of town, and he felled it in the Bay of the Big Port of Sao Vicente.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • After taking the drug, he felt like a complete tripper, lost in vibrant colors and swirling patterns.

  • Many trippers enjoy the festival atmosphere, as they explore their surroundings with heightened senses.

  • During the concert, she turned into a tripper, mesmerized by the lights and the music around her.

Synonyms

hallucinator
vstripper
8.9

A person who sees or hears things that are not really there

is usually someone under a psychedelic drug causing the hallucinations

How Intoxicated

tripper
  • NSFW
1 9.9
high
  • NSFW
5 7.9

Surface Forms

tripper singular
trippers plural

Morphology

tripper = trip (semi-transparent) = trip + er

Derived from the slang verb 'to trip' (to experience hallucinations); the slangy, nonstandard sense makes the agentive meaning less predictable for learners unfamiliar with the drug sense.

Etymology

Tripper in slang comes from the verb trip, used to mean a strong 'drug experience' where a person may see or feel strange things. So a tripper is someone who is having that kind of experience.