BAD TRIP Definition & Meaning

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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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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.

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And I went deep into that bad trip, which actually turned out to be inspiring.

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I remember having quite a bad trip.

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The “Eric André Show” and “Bad Trip” comedian, who is Black, said he was stopped at the Melbourne Aiport as he was traveling from New York City to Brisbane, where he is set to shoot an upcoming project.

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She had read online that it could reverse the effects of a so-called “bad trip” and had some on hand prepared for this very reason.

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“It made the experience much better since it gave me the option to stop the bad trip,” Nadia, who is using a pseudonym to protect her privacy, told Salon.

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