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ego trip

ego trip noun: an act of self-aggrandizement, undertaken to increase one's own power and influence or to draw attention to one's own importance.

Noun

ego trip (plural ego trips)

  1. An act of self-aggrandizement, undertaken to increase one's own power and influence or to draw attention to one's own importance.

Forms of ego trip

pluralego trips

Origin of ego trip

Originally US drug subcultures, late 1960s.

Words formed from ego trip

Questions about ego trip

What does ego trip mean?
Ego trip means an act of self-aggrandizement, undertaken to increase one's own power and influence or to draw attention to one's own importance.
What part of speech is ego trip?
Ego trip is a noun.
What is the plural of ego trip?
The plural of ego trip is ego trips.

Words near ego trip in the dictionary

  1. ego loss
  2. ego shooter
  3. ego shooters
  4. ego surfing
  5. ego syntonic
  6. ego trip
  7. ego trips
  8. ego'd
  9. ego-
  10. ego-dystonic
  11. ego-expansion

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