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
Nadav	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Estela	-	Portuguese, Spanish
Marcia	MAHR-shə (English), MAHR-see-ə (English), MAHR-thyah (Spanish), MAHR-syah (Latin American Spanish)	English, Spanish, Ancient Roman
Michael	MIE-kəl (English), MI-khah-el (German), MEE-kah-el (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish)	English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Czech, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Joona	YO:-nah	Finnish
Wayne	[wein]