bad trip
noun Slang.
a mentally or physically horrifying drug-taking experience, as one accompanied by nightmarish hallucinations or by physical pain.
a dismayingly unpleasant experience: He was so ill-prepared that college was a bad trip for him.
Origin of bad trip
First recorded in 1965–70
Words nearby bad trip
bad rap,
bad seed,
bad sort, a,
bad taste,
bad time,
bad trip,
bad trot,
bad-mouth,
bad-tempered,
bada-bing,
badajoz
Idioms and Phrases with bad trip
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.