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spaced-out

[speyst-out]
–adjective Slang.
1. dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
2. dreamily or eerily out of touch with reality or seemingly so; spacey.
Also, spaced.


Origin:
1965–70, Americanism; on the pattern of phrasal verbs with out marking perfectivity; space appar. by assoc. with “outer space” as, metaphorically, a place outside normal consciousness
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spaced-out   (spāst'out')
adj.   Slang
Stupefied or disoriented from or as if from a drug.
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