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tripped out

tripped out is the simple past and past participle of trip out.

Meaning of 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
  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
  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
  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
  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

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Adjective

tripped out (comparative more tripped out, superlative most tripped out)

  1. (informal) trippy; psychedelic
    • […] a "tripped-out" backlighting effect, as though the sun is shooting out acidic rays of light.2004, Robert Hoekman, Flash Out of the Box: A User-Centric Beginner's Guide to Flash (page 9)
    • […] a tripped-out, jazzed-up instrumental rendition of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child."2022, Gary Phillips, South Central Noir

Forms of tripped out

comparativemore tripped out
superlativemost tripped out

Questions about tripped out

What does tripped out mean?
Tripped out means trippy; psychedelic.
What is tripped out the simple past and past participle of?
Tripped out is the simple past and past participle of trip out.
What part of speech is tripped out?
Tripped out is an adjective.

Words near tripped out in the dictionary

  1. trippant
  2. Trippe
  3. tripped
  4. tripped balls
  5. tripped from the tongue
  6. tripped out
  7. tripped over
  8. tripped over oneself
  9. tripped the light fantastic
  10. tripped the light fantastic toe
  11. tripped up

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