trip out

Definitions

1. 1

   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. 2

   To have a fit, to become enraged or upset

   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..."
   • I noticed that the Iraqis, especially the female Iraqis, were completely tripping out at the sight of a female in uniform, like they would point and act all shocked when they saw them.
   • And I just, when he put the he put the gun to my head I just tripped out most.
3. 3

   To enthuse, to respond with strong positive emotion

   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.
   • The current zoning board is high on growth, and the plan for a golf course has them practically tripping out.
   • And Jacob is tripping out on a riff he pulled in his solo that made my eyes fill with tears.
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   1. 4

      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.
      • In the beginning of the story, Mae was tripping out on being princess with a. dyeing her hair b. long golden hair c. a long dress d. an Afro
   2. 5

      To pull the drill stem and bit out of the hole of an oil well drill, in order to access…

      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.
   3. 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 overloads
      • At any rate the power arc requires the tripping out of the circuit to extinguish the arc, causing an interruption in the continuity of service, the maintenance of which is constantly becoming of increased importance.
      • The purifier tripped out due to the vibrations caused by the bang.
   4. 7

      To be released in spite of constraints

      To be released in spite of constraints; to spill out.

      • 'No, not this weekend,' was all she said, although much more could have come tripping out so effortlessly in this comfortable corner with these women ready to listen.
      • And it started little by little tripping out, then the big . . . multinationals, the big corporations . . . I don't wanna say another word because then they'll think I'm too much to the left.
   5. 8

      To go out with light steps.

      • Unlike Alex, Doug functioned very well in the debates, as willing as the next deep thinker to go tripping out onto lofty constructions of ideology and rhetoric.
      • He did not betray a flicker of interest until the act was over and she and Bezano came tripping out hand in hand to take their bows.
      • What had it felt like to go tripping out in those delicate half-boots, muslined from neck to ankle, a parasol in your hand, hair dressed and bonneted, and stays pressing your ribs every time you breathed?

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