Idiom
bad trip
Meaning
An acute adverse psychological reaction to the effects produced under the influence of psychoactive substances, namely hallucinogens.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He had a bad trip after taking those drugs.”
“The music festival turned scary when my friend started having a bad trip and needed help.”
“The experience was a terrifying bad trip that left him feeling anxious and disoriented for several days afterward.”
Examples
simple
“He had a bad trip after taking those drugs.”
contextual
“The music festival turned scary when my friend started having a bad trip and needed help.”
complex
“The experience was a terrifying bad trip that left him feeling anxious and disoriented for several days afterward.”
Origin
From bad + trip, first appearing c. 1966 within the pages of the periodical Life.
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