trip balls

verb

To experience a severe drug-induced hallucinatory trip.

Meanings

verbtrip balls (third-person singular simple present trips balls, present participle tripping balls, simple past and past participle tripped balls)

present singular third person trips balls · participle present tripping balls · participle past tripped balls · past tripped balls

  1. slangTo experience a severe drug-induced hallucinatory trip.

    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
    2 more examples

    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

    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
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