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powertrip

powertrip is the alternative spelling of power trip.

Meaning of power trip

Noun

power trip (plural power trips)

  1. Any activity which confers a sense of power on the person involved.
  2. The excitement that results from such an activity.
  3. (Malaysia, Singapore, especially) A power outage or a blackout, when an electrical device or system suddenly stops working.
    • A power trip has shut down production from the Ophir field offshore Malaysia, according to a report by energy portal OffshoreEnergyToday.com.2018 January 9, Surin Murugiah, “Power trip shuts down Ophir field offshore Malaysia, says report”, in The Edge Markets, retrieved 17 Aug 2023
    Synonyms:
    power cut

Forms of powertrip

pluralpowertrips

Questions about powertrip

What is powertrip the alternative spelling of?
Powertrip is the alternative spelling of power trip.

Words near powertrip in the dictionary

  1. powertillers
  2. powertop
  3. powertops
  4. powertrain
  5. powertrains
  6. powertrip
  7. powertrips
  8. powerup
  9. powerups
  10. powerviolence
  11. powerwalk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: powertrip (page history and authors); power trip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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