contact high

British  

noun

1. a state of altered consciousness caused by inhaling the drugs other people are smoking

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Example Sentences

Yet however familiar his alternative universe can seem — feel — his filmmaking creates such a strong contact high that it’s always been easy to simply bliss out on the sheer spectacle of it all.

From New York Times

Hung, a French Vietnamese filmmaker whose eye for cinematic sensualism was on display in early works like “The Scent of Green Papaya” and “Cyclo,” here achieves something of a culinary contact high.

From Los Angeles Times

Related WeCrashed is the podcast-to-TV-show pipeline’s weirdest one yet I got a contact high just reading this bananas profile of WeWork’s founder Neumann has already bought 3,000 apartment units in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, and Nashville to build out his Flow-branded apartments, which aren’t set to debut until 2023.

From The Verge

In her review for The Times, Manohla Dargis called it “the kind of all-too-rare pleasurable Hollywood diversion that gives you a contact high.”

From New York Times

Relatedly, reports of Depp's profligate life and spending habits have been giving tabloid readers a contact high for decades; as has their schadenfreude at hearing he was on the verge of going broke.

From Salon