tripster

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noun

A user of psychoactive drugs.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nountripster (plural tripsters)

plural tripsters

  1. informalA user of psychoactive drugs.

    The freaked out tripster was well wrapped up in two soaking wet sheets.

    2017, Gregory Lane, Bloodship: Victor Four
    3 more examples

    If the tripsters were frankly groping, stumbling, searching, seeking, growing, and eventually finding some way back to this world — in short, if they were genuinely open — I would feel differently.

    1969, Addictions, volume 13, page 46

    Inklings of what this dimension may be like come to us through the experience of computer hackers and psychedelic tripsters, who think of themselves not as opposite ends of the spectrum of human activity but as a synergistic congregation of creative thinkers bringing the tools of high technology and advanced spirituality into the living rooms of the general public.

    1994, Douglas Rushkoff, Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace

    They are responsible for the truck fleet and especially aware of the economic strain if trucks are miss-used by tripsters.

    2010, Mark Christensen, Acid Christ, page 191

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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