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to trippin'

to trippin'

9.9
To see or hear things that are not real, often because of drugs
  • verb
  • /ˈtrɪpɪn/
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translation icon : alucinar
  • I'm tripping on acid right now.

And dude, I fucking was tripping balls.

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Examples

  • After taking the psychedelic, I was really trippin' and seeing patterns in the walls.

  • He told me he was trippin' during the concert, feeling like he was floating above the crowd.

  • OK, this is kind of tripping me out right now.

  • It was, I was tripping in my dreams, but I had not taken LSD.

    Lex Fridman

  • While we were hiking, she started trippin' after accidentally eating some mushrooms.

Synonyms

to get high
vsto trippin'
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112 9.3

Feel very happy and different after taking drugs or alcohol

is more specific, referring to hallucinatory perceptual changes from psychedelics
to trip
vsto trippin'
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103 9.5

To see things that are not real after taking drugs

is the same experience described more informally and with no extra detail
to hallucinate
vsto trippin'
75 7.4

To see or hear things that are not there

limits this meaning to cases caused especially by psychedelic drug use
to trip out
vsto trippin'
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3 9.8

Feel strange and see or hear things after taking drugs

is narrower, centering on true perceptual hallucinations from psychedelic drugs
hallucinating
vsto trippin'
7.7

Seeing or hearing things that are not real

focuses on the same perceptual change but specifically after psychedelic drug use

Antonyms

sober
269 3.2

Not having drunk alcohol or taken drugs

clearheaded
1 4.9

Able to think clearly and make good decisions

How Altered

to trippin'
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9.9
to get high
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112 9.3

Surface Forms

trippin' infinitive
tripped past
tripped past participle
trippin' present participle
trippin's third person singular

Morphology

trippin' = trip (opaque) = trip + ing

The spelling clearly contains trip + -ing, but the psychedelic sense is specialized and not inferable from the ordinary verb meaning.

Etymology

Trippin' for seeing things comes from trip meaning a 'journey'; in modern slang a drug trip is a mental 'journey' of strange sights and feelings. So to be trippin' is to have those drug-made hallucinations or altered perceptions.