bad trip

noun Slang.

a mentally or physically horrifying drug-taking experience, as one accompanied by nightmarish hallucinations or by physical pain.

a dismayingly unpleasant experience: He was so ill-prepared that college was a bad trip for him.

Origin:
1965–70

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bad trip definition

n.
a bad experience with a drug. (Drugs.) : My first trip was a bad trip, and I never took another.
n.
any bad experience or person. : Harry can be such a bad trip.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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bad trip

A frightening or otherwise very unpleasant experience, as in Given the poor turnout, her book tour was a bad trip. The term comes from drug slang of the mid-1900s, where it meant experiencing hallucinations, pain, or other terrible effects from taking a drug, especially LSD. It was then extended to any extremely unpleasant experience.

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