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)
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Adjective
tripped out (comparative more tripped out, superlative most tripped out)
- 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
| comparative | more tripped out |
|---|---|
| superlative | most 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
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