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trip balls en · VERB

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Meanings

  1. (slang) To experience a severe drug-induced hallucinatory trip.
    • During college, I had lived and studied at the Slade School in London for a year, and I became involved in the trance club scene—the Fridge, Escape from Samsara, Return to the Source—and what became apparent was that these thousand kids tripping balls on ecstasy just want to feel something. 2008, Sam Sheridan, A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 42:
    • I felt as if I were tripping balls, but I hadn't taken anything. 2001, Sparrow L. Patterson, Synthetic Bi Products, Akashic Books, →ISBN, page 203:
    • God never asked His Son About the time He spent In LA Running with that hellish crowd And tripping balls in San Francisco 1995, Chad Propst, “Wild Nights in Bethlehem,”, in Eddie D. Chuculate, editor, Home is in the Blood: new work from the Institute of American Indian Arts 1994-1995, Institute of American Indian Arts, →ISBN, page 102:

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trips balls Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
tripped balls Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tripped balls Tense=Past lexicographic
tripping balls Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic