Meaning & use

trip out

phrase·Advanced

Slang for reacting with intense surprise or shock, or having a disorienting, dreamlike experience.

See it in a sentence

I totally tripped out when I saw how much the concert tickets cost.

The strange lights in the sky made everyone at the party trip out.

A note on using this word

Trip out is casual slang, common in spoken American English, and rarely appropriate in formal writing.

Words with a similar meaning

freak out

Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.

Make it your own

Write a sentence using “trip out”, then compare your use with the examples above.

Your draft stays on this page and is not sent anywhere.