bad trip
slang An intense and unpleasant psychological experience, usually resulting from the ingestion of psychedelic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD, or "acid"). I had a real bad trip last night. I'll never do drugs again! He's acting really strangely now. He's guess he's on a bad trip from that stuff he took. I've never done drugs—I'm terrified of having a bad trip.
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bad trip
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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bad trip
1. n. a bad experience with a drug. (Drugs.) My first trip was a bad trip, and I never took another.
2. n. any bad experience or person. Harry can be such a bad trip.
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