tripping 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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