day-tripper
One who travels to a destination for just one day, without an overnight stay. They save money by being day-trippers and avoiding costly hotel fees. Whenever my whole family stays at the beach house together, there's always drama—that's why I'm only a day-tripper! My parents were big day-trippers when we were kids. We didn't go on our first "real" vacation (to the Bahamas) until we were in high school.
ego-tripper
Someone who is apt to act in a superior and self-centered manner. Don't get coffee for that ego-tripper—you're not one of his lowly interns. The CEO must be a real ego tripper—I mean, he named a building after himself! The boss is a total ego-tripper. I bet he schedules these meetings just to hear himself talk.
round-tripper
1. slang In baseball and softball, a home run (a hit that results in the batter making their way around all three bases and back to home, likened to a round-trip journey). Davidson's round-tripper in the bottom of the ninth sealed the team's first World Cup championship in over 85 years. The pitcher was replaced after allowing six round-trippers in the first two innings.
2. Any journey that involves returning to the point of origin shortly after reaching the destination, especially by traveling the same route in reverse. Why don't you spend the day in town running your errands, instead of making so many round-trippers back and forth? I'll have done about four or five round-trippers to New York by the time the year is over.
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