bad trip

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.

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.

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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
NÓIrÍN	-	Irish
Debbie	DEB-ee	English
Zola (2)	-	Southern African, Zulu
&Aelig;Thelric	-	Anglo-Saxon (Latinized)
LucÍA	loo-THEE-ah (Spanish), loo-SEE-ah (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Tanith	-	Near Eastern Mythology