trip-sit
trip-sit is the alternative form of trip sit.
Meaning of trip sit
Verb
trip sit (third-person singular simple present trip sits, present participle trip sitting, simple past and past participle trip sat)
- To watch over a person while they are using drugs; to act as a trip sitter.
- My friend Beth, who trip sat me in the early days (remember her from the section “Breaks in Time”?) died during the writing of this book. I ask, “Where is Beth?”2006, Dan Carpenter, A Psychonaut’s Guide to the Invisible Landscape, page 76
- To guide another person's drug trip; to act as a psychedelic guide.
- A brief guide to trip sitting. There is often a tendency to overpower the tripper with our insights or knowledge. Let go of this impulse.2022 April 4, Patrick Kyle, “A brief guide to trip sitting”, in The Nation, page 62
Forms of trip-sit
| third-person singular present | trip-sits |
|---|---|
| present participle | trip-sitting |
| past participle | trip-sat |
| past | trip-sat |
Questions about trip-sit
- What is trip-sit the alternative form of?
- Trip-sit is the alternative form of trip sit.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: trip-sit (page history and authors); trip sit (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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