head trip
Americannoun
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a mentally exhilarating or productive experience, as one in which a person's intellect or imagination seems to expand.
Etymology
Origin of head trip
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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When you have to constantly be going in an MRI or these different machines, the radiation machines — that’s a head trip, to go get radiated every day.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
Many of us who watched grisly Ryan Murphy’s head trip from start to finish are still trying to figure out what it’s trying to say.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024
The new album by The Flaming Lips is a head trip - literally.
From Washington Times • Jul. 17, 2019
A fascinating dramatization of selfhood as serial lives, this strange chamber piece — co-starring the terrific Mackenzie Davis — was a head trip in all the right ways.
From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2018
The whole thing is a head trip, and more than anything it reveals how we can never really control how Facebook collects data.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2018
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