bad trip

bad trip

noun Slang.
1.
a mentally or physically horrifying drug-taking experience, as one accompanied by nightmarish hallucinations or by physical pain.
2.
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


  1. n.
    a bad experience with a drug. (Drugs.) : My first trip was a bad trip, and I never took another.
  2. 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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Idioms & Phrases

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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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