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trip-sitter

trip-sitter is the alternative form of trip sitter.

Meaning of trip sitter

Noun

trip sitter (plural trip sitters)

  1. (recreational drugs) A person who watches over a person who is using drugs.
    • As a psychedelic researcher, she was a “trip sitter” the straight person charting drug trips and documenting the findings.1996 June 7, Kathleen McCloud, “‘Artists choice’ promotes idea of mentoring debuts lesser-known work”, in The Santa Fe New Mexican, page 6

Forms of trip-sitter

pluraltrip-sitters

Questions about trip-sitter

What is trip-sitter the alternative form of?
Trip-sitter is the alternative form of trip sitter.

Words near trip-sitter in the dictionary

  1. trip workings
  2. trip-hammer
  3. trip-hammers
  4. trip-hop
  5. trip-sit
  6. trip-sitter
  7. trip-sitting
  8. trip-switch
  9. trip-switches
  10. trip-trap
  11. trip-trapped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trip-sitter (page history and authors); trip sitter (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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