trip out

Verb

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

1. (slang) To hallucinate or otherwise alter one's consciousness as a result of drugs.
   • They started to trip out after five minutes of eating the mushrooms.
2. (slang) To have a fit, to become enraged or upset; to flip out.
   • “Miranda told me he's totally tripped out about Tenrix,” she declared, and my eyes shot back to her, another chill going down my spine...."...Lloyd blew a gasket when Heath told him but Heath told him when it was over..."2014, Kristen Ashley, The Promise, →ISBN
   • I noticed that the Iraqis, especially the female Iraqis, were completely tripping out at the sight of a female in uniform, like they would point and act all shocked when they saw them.2014, Colby Buzzell, My War: Killing Time in Iraq, →ISBN, page 115
3. (slang) To enthuse, to respond with strong positive emotion; to get high (on)
   • The students just ate those pages up, getting high on Deuteronomy, tripping out on Exodus.2012, Paul Krassner, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut, →ISBN
   • The current zoning board is high on growth, and the plan for a golf course has them practically tripping out.2012, Starr Ambrose, Gold Fire, →ISBN
4. (idiomatic) To have as an image in one's mind.
   • We enjoyed joking, blaspheming and tripping out on teachers, administrators and on some of the weird-looking students on campus.1982, Gus Frias, Barrio Warriors: Homeboys of Peace, page 23
   • In the beginning of the story, Mae was tripping out on being princess with a. dyeing her hair b. long golden hair c. a long dress d. an Afro2007, Yvette R. Harris, James A. Graham, The African American Child: Development and Challenges, →ISBN, page 125
5. To pull the drill stem and bit out of the hole of an oil well drill, in order to access the borehole.
   • Work carefully through high overpulls when tripping out, it may add a couple of hours to the trip, but you should not get into trouble.1998, Steve Devereux, Practical Well Planning and Drilling Manual, →ISBN, page 15
   • It is more common, for instance, for a drill string to become stuck when tripping out with the bit off bottom and the critical information pertinent to such a stuck pipe event will not be present in the traditional on-bottom depth-referenced data.2011, Philippe Theys, Gerald Brace, Quest for Quality Data, →ISBN, page 213
6. To break a circuit in response to an overload.
   • Hitherto the switches with so-called instantaneous overload release have had the objectionable feature of tripping out on temporary overloads1911, The Electrical Journal - Volume 67, page 82
   • At any rate the power arc requires the tripping out of the circuit to extinguish the arc, causing an interruption in the continuity of service, the maintenance of which is constantly becoming of increased importance.1929, United States National Bureau of Standards, Protection of electrical circuits and equipment against lightning
7. To be released in spite of constraints; to spill out.
   • 'No, not this weekend,' was all she said, although much more could have come tripping out so effortlessly in this comfortable corner with these women ready to listen.2010, Milly Johnson, A Summer Fling, →ISBN
   • And it started little by little tripping out, then the big . . . multinationals, the big corporations . . . I don't wanna say another word because then they'll think I'm too much to the left.2012, Agustín Laó-Montes, Arlene Dávila, Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City, →ISBN, page 390
8. To go out with light steps.
   • Unlike Alex, Doug functioned very well in the debates, as willing as the next deep thinker to go tripping out onto lofty constructions of ideology and rhetoric.2009, Jonathan Lerner, Alex Underground, →ISBN, page 11
   • He did not betray a flicker of interest until the act was over and she and Bezano came tripping out hand in hand to take their bows.2009, George A. Carlin, He Who Gets Slapped, →ISBN, page 138