"bad trip" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-bad trip.ogg [Australia] Forms: bad trips [plural]
Etymology: bad + trip, first use appears c. 1966 in the periodical Life. Etymology templates: {{com|en|bad|trip}} bad + trip Head templates: {{en-noun}} bad trip (plural bad trips)
  1. (slang, drug use) An acute adverse psychological reaction to effects produced under the influence of psychoactive substances, namely hallucinogens. Wikipedia link: Life (magazine) Tags: slang Synonyms: psychedelic crisis, bummer Translations (psychedelic crisis): bad trip (Dutch), paha matka (Finnish), paha trippi (Finnish), mauvais délire (French), mauvais voyage (French), bad trip (French), Horrortrip (German), התקף פסיכדלי (Hebrew), psykedelisk krise (Norwegian), bad trip [masculine] (Polish), бэд трип (bɛd trip) (Russian), mal viaje [masculine] (Spanish), snedtripp [common-gender] (Swedish), snetripp [common-gender] (Swedish), snedtändning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-bad_trip-en-noun-C~htGeeo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Hebrew terms with redundant script codes

Inflected forms

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