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tripster

tripster noun: a user of psychoactive drugs.

Noun

tripster (plural tripsters)

  1. (informal) A user of psychoactive drugs.
    • If the tripsters were frankly groping, stumbling, searching, seeking, growing, and eventually finding some way back to this world — in short, if they were genuinely open — I would feel differently.1969, Addictions, volume 13, page 46
    • Inklings of what this dimension may be like come to us through the experience of computer hackers and psychedelic tripsters, who think of themselves not as opposite ends of the spectrum of human activity but as a synergistic congregation of creative thinkers bringing the tools of high technology...1994, Douglas Rushkoff, Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace

Examples of tripster in a sentence

  • They are responsible for the truck fleet and especially aware of the economic strain if trucks are miss-used by tripsters.2010, Mark Christensen, Acid Christ, page 191:
  • The freaked out tripster was well wrapped up in two soaking wet sheets.2017, Gregory Lane, Bloodship: Victor Four:

Forms of tripster

pluraltripsters

Origin of tripster

From trip + -ster.

Questions about tripster

What does tripster mean?
Tripster means a user of psychoactive drugs.
How do you use tripster in a sentence?
They are responsible for the truck fleet and especially aware of the economic strain if trucks are miss-used by tripsters.
What part of speech is tripster?
Tripster is a noun.
What is the plural of tripster?
The plural of tripster is tripsters.

Words near tripster in the dictionary

  1. trips to the woodshed
  2. trips up
  3. tripsinization
  4. tripsis
  5. tripsome
  6. tripster
  7. tripsters
  8. tript
  9. triptan
  10. triptane
  11. triptanes

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