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ego-trip

ego-trip verb: to go on an ego trip; to behave in such a manner.

Verb

ego-trip (third-person singular simple present ego-trips, present participle ego-tripping, simple past and past participle ego-tripped)

  1. To go on an ego trip; to behave in such a manner.
    • “Our generation of women is constantly told to have high self-esteem, but it seems that the women themselves are at risk of ego-tripping themselves out of romantic connection,” she writes.2012 April 22, Bettina Arndt, “Why women lose the dating game”, in The Sidney Morning Herald

Forms of ego-trip

third-person singular presentego-trips
present participleego-tripping
past participleego-tripped
pastego-tripped

Questions about ego-trip

What does ego-trip mean?
Ego-trip means to go on an ego trip; to behave in such a manner.
What part of speech is ego-trip?
Ego-trip is a verb.
What is the past tense of ego-trip?
The past tense of ego-trip is ego-tripped.

Words near ego-trip in the dictionary

  1. ego-surf
  2. ego-surfed
  3. ego-surfing
  4. ego-surfs
  5. ego-syntonic
  6. ego-trip
  7. ego-tripped
  8. ego-tripping
  9. ego-trips
  10. egoboo
  11. egoboost

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