Etymology

guilt-trip

Today it means: To attempt to induce a guilt trip; to cause another to feel guilt, in order to influence the behavior of that individual. Full definition →

Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

Denominal verb of guilt trip. First use appears c. 1977 in the defunct periodical Spare Rib.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.