trip out

verb trips out · tripping out · tripped out

1. slang To hallucinate or otherwise alter one's consciousness as a result of drugs. They started to trip out after five minutes of eating the mushrooms.
2. slang To have a fit, to become enraged or upset; to flip out. “Miranda told me he's totally tripped out about Tenrix,” she declared, and my eyes shot back to her, another chill going down my spine...."...Lloyd blew a gasket when Heath told him but Heath told him when it was over..."
3. slang To enthuse, to respond with strong positive emotion; to get high (on) The students just ate those pages up, getting high on Deuteronomy, tripping out on Exodus.
4. idiomatic To have as an image in one's mind. We enjoyed joking, blaspheming and tripping out on teachers, administrators and on some of the weird-looking students on campus.
5. To pull the drill stem and bit out of the hole of an oil well drill, in order to access the borehole. Work carefully through high overpulls when tripping out, it may add a couple of hours to the trip, but you should not get into trouble.
6. To break a circuit in response to an overload. Hitherto the switches with so-called instantaneous overload release have had the objectionable feature of tripping out on temporary overloads
7. To be released in spite of constraints; to spill out. 'No, not this weekend,' was all she said, although much more could have come tripping out so effortlessly in this comfortable corner with these women ready to listen.
8. To go out with light steps. Unlike Alex, Doug functioned very well in the debates, as willing as the next deep thinker to go tripping out onto lofty constructions of ideology and rhetoric.