trip out

verb8

1. •
   (slang) To hallucinate or otherwise alter one's consciousness as a result of drugs.

   • They started to trip out after five minutes of eating the mushrooms.
2. •
   (slang) To have a fit, to become enraged or upset; to flip out.

   • I noticed that the Iraqis, especially the female Iraqis, were completely tripping out at the sight of a female in uniform, like they would point and act all shocked when they saw them. — 2014
3. •
   (slang) To enthuse, to respond with strong positive emotion; to get high (on)

   • The students just ate those pages up, getting high on Deuteronomy, tripping out on Exodus. — 2012
4. •
   To break a circuit in response to an overload.

   • Hitherto the switches with so-called instantaneous overload release have had the objectionable feature of tripping out on temporary overloads — 1911
5. •
   To have as an image in one's mind.

   • We enjoyed joking, blaspheming and tripping out on teachers, administrators and on some of the weird-looking students on campus. — 1982
6. •
   To pull the drill stem and bit out of the hole of an oil well drill, in order to access the borehole.

   • Work carefully through high overpulls when tripping out, it may add a couple of hours to the trip, but you should not get into trouble. — 1998
7. •
   To be released in spite of constraints; to spill out.

   • 'No, not this weekend,' was all she said, although much more could have come tripping out so effortlessly in this comfortable corner with these women ready to listen. — 2010
8. •
   To go out with light steps.

   • Unlike Alex, Doug functioned very well in the debates, as willing as the next deep thinker to go tripping out onto lofty constructions of ideology and rhetoric. — 2009