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View synonyms for bad trip
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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bad trip1
First recorded in 1965–70
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Idioms and Phrases
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.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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