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Meaning: (slang)Tohallucinateor otherwise alter one'sconsciousnessas a result of drugs.They started totrip outafter five minutes of eating the mushrooms.; (slang)Tohave a fit, to becomeenragedorupset; toflip out.2014, Kristen Ashley,The Promise,→ISBN:“Miranda told me he's totallytripped outabout 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..."2014, Colby Buzzell,My War: Killing Time in Iraq,→ISBN, page115:I noticed that the Iraqis, especially the female Iraqis, were completelytripping outat the sight of a female in uniform, like they would point and act all shocked when they saw them.2015, Maurice Moya,The Torreon Cabin Murders: A False Confession and False Statement,→ISBN:And I just, when he put the he put the gun to my head I justtripped outmost.; (slang)Toenthuse, to respond with strong positive emotion; to get high (on)2012, Paul Krassner,Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut,→ISBN:The students just ate those pages up, getting high on Deuteronomy,tripping outon Exodus.2012, Starr Ambrose,Gold Fire,→ISBN:The current zoning board is high on growth, and the plan for a golf course has them practicallytripping out.2015, Gabrielle Prendergast,The Frail Days,→ISBN, page115:And Jacob istripping outon a riff he pulled in his solo that made my eyes fill with tears.; (idiomatic)To have as animagein one's mind.1982, Gus Frias,Barrio Warriors: Homeboys of Peace, page23:We enjoyed joking, blaspheming andtripping outon teachers, administrators and on some of the weird-looking students on campus.2007, Yvette R. Harris, James A. Graham,The African American Child: Development and Challenges,→ISBN, page125:In the beginning of the story, Mae wastripping outon being princess with a. dyeing her hair b. long golden hair c. a long dress d. an Afro2015, Calvin Slater,Hold Me Down,→ISBN:The drama with the bikers had given him insomnia. So he'd made it through the night lying in bed on his back with the bedroom lights out and staring into the darkness. Xavier had beentripping out, thinking about a lifetime of mistakes he'd managed to make over a couple years.; (engineering)To pull the drillstemandbitout of the hole of anoil welldrill, in order to access theborehole.1998, Steve Devereux,Practical Well Planning and Drilling Manual,→ISBN, page15:Work carefully through high overpulls whentripping out, it may add a couple of hours to the trip, but you should not get into trouble.2011, Philippe Theys, Gerald Brace,Quest for Quality Data,→ISBN, page213:It is more common, for instance, for a drill string to become stuck whentripping outwith the bit off bottom and the critical information pertinent to such a stuck pipe event will not be present in the traditional on-bottom depth-referenced data.; (electronics)To break acircuitin response to anoverload.1911,The Electrical Journal - Volume 67, page82:Hitherto the switches with so-called instantaneous overload release have had the objectionable feature oftripping outon temporary overloads1929, United States National Bureau of Standards,Protection of electrical circuits and equipment against lightning:At any rate the power arc requires thetripping outof the circuit to extinguish the arc, causing an interruption in the continuity of service, the maintenance of which is constantly becoming of increased importance.2013, John Robertson,Dare to Dream,→ISBN, page382:The purifiertripped outdue to the vibrations caused by the bang.; To bereleasedin spite ofconstraints; tospill out.2010, Milly Johnson,A Summer Fling,→ISBN:'No, not this weekend,' was all she said, although much more could have cometripping outso effortlessly in this comfortable corner with these women ready to listen.2012, Agustín Laó-Montes, Arlene Dávila,Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City,→ISBN, page390:And it started little by littletripping 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.2012, Evan Bates,Great German Short Stories,→ISBN:One afternoon, for instance, during coffee, in a sort of brown study like this, in the special season of corporeal and spiritual digestion, the place where a lost Act was lying occurred to me, as if by inspiration ; and last night, no farther gone, there came a glorious large Latin papertripping outbefore my open eyes, in the very same way.”2014, Ruchi Vasudeva,You Can't Fight A Royal Attraction,→ISBN:The questiontripped out, the desire to know too strong to be denied.; To gooutwithlightsteps.2009, Jonathan Lerner,Alex Underground,→ISBN, page11:Unlike Alex, Doug functioned very well in the debates, as willing as the next deep thinker to gotripping outonto lofty constructions of ideology and rhetoric.2009, George A. Carlin,He Who Gets Slapped,→ISBN, page138:He did not betray a flicker of interest until the act was over and she and Bezano cametripping outhand in hand to take their bows.2010, Elizabeth Aston,Writing Jane Austen: A Novel,→ISBN, page86:What had it felt like to gotripping outin 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?2012, Ann Lethbridge,Lady Of Shame,→ISBN:Her fur-lined cloak would serve as a carriage blanket as well as keep her warm whentripping outto the necessary or when they put up for the night.
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