单词 | head trip |
释义 | head tripn. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.) 1. a. A hallucinatory experience or altered mental state induced by a (psychedelic) drug. Cf. trip n.1 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [noun] > effects of hallucinatory drugs trip1959 freaking-out1965 acid trip1966 freak-out1966 head trip1967 tripping1968 turn-on1969 trippiness1976 1967 I. Reed Free-lance Pallbearers v. 152 Avant-garde muggle-smoking and head trips. 1969 Life 21 Mar. 56/2 I..went into a really bad head-trip. Wanted to kill myself, wanted to kill other people. The day after, I was still stoned. 1973 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 18 Oct. 4/4 Things to watch out for: A real down, depressed heavy head trip and the possibility of o.d.'ing on a fairly small amount. 1988 Washington Post 2 June c1/5 It will help, in this instance, to think of San Francisco..as..a citadel of hippies, head trips and psychedelia. 2008 L. Duran Meant for Each Other x. 128 It's gonna take him two or three days at least to come down off this head trip. b. Something, esp. a film or piece of music, which affects the mind in a manner likened to a drug hallucination. Also: a strange, unsettling, or profound experience. ΚΠ 1969 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 17 Jan. 20/2 The Light Sound Dimension, an experimental blending of rear-projected light show and improvised musique concrete, is a head trip. 1974 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 4 Feb. 21/2 Finding out you're gay can be a heavy-duty head trip and it's nice to have someone around to talk to. 1986 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 5 Jan. e4/1 Returning to the Orange Bowl as the enemy was a strange head trip for Kosar. 1996 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 24 Oct. 9 d This book..is a self-indulgent head trip, visiting the never-never land of metaphysics. 2007 Spin Mar. 88/1 Like a beautiful and eerie dream, this stream-of-consciousness head trip blends..delicious melodies and slippery lyrics. 2. An experience or activity which stimulates the intellect; an intellectual exercise, esp. one regarded as overly abstract or theoretical. ΚΠ 1970 N.Y. Times 22 Feb. e5/5 Seminary is a three-year head trip..but all that cerebral activity doesn't help a man draw up a budget or work with people in the real world. 1977 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 18 Sept. 3/1 I had psychology, sociology and those things in college. But they were just head trips. I never applied them to myself. 1986 C. Koontz Connecting Creativity & Spirituality i. 8 Instead of going on a head trip and just talking about creativity, treating it merely intellectually, perhaps I need to let both the method and the form..emerge as they will. 2001 S. Case Time Out! 88 We got into discussions, but they were more head trips than heart calls. 3. An instance of egotistical or arrogant behaviour; an act done in order to increase one’s sense of self-importance; = ego-trip n. at ego n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > seek or look after one's own interest [verb (intransitive)] > indulge oneself carve1596 indulgea1718 ego-trip1969 head trip1974 1974 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 29 Apr. 4/1 So who are you kidding? are you really flaunting your endowments..or just on a big head trip? 1989 J. Wylie Poletown (1990) iv. 67 A couple of big egos got off on a head trip. They wanted everything to fall under their banner. 1997 Sporting News (Nexis) 22 Sept. 54 I backed away and stopped... Why do it? To prove I could compete, a head trip? 2008 Philadelphia Daily News (Nexis) 26 Sept. (Features section) 33 Both [are] really generous actors. Sweet people. No head trips. No tantrums. It was a nice time we had. 4. An instance of psychological manipulation, esp. used to gain an advantage over another person; a mind game; a guilt trip. ΚΠ 1982 L. G. Stenzel Lillie Seline's Confession v. 34 I became incensed when I thought of all the chaste mumbo-jumbo he always gave me, the little head-trips he ran. 1989 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 17 Feb. (Metro section) b1 He did some head trips on me. He can get you to believe anything. 1996 Ebony Mar. 34/1 I wanted someone who loved me and..didn't want to play games and take me through a lot of head trips. 2009 J. Collins Poor Little Bitch Girl (2010) xx. 146 Nobody had ever complained about his lovemaking technique before... What kind of head trip was she trying to pull? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1967 |
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