EGO TRIP Definition & Meaning

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ego trip

noun

Informal.

an act or course of action undertaken primarily to satisfy one's vanity or for self-gratification.
Her charitable activity was one long ego trip.

ego-trip

[ee-goh-trip, eg-oh-]

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verb (used without object)

Informal.

ego-tripped, ego-tripping

to behave in a self-serving manner.

ego trip

noun

something undertaken to boost or draw attention to a person's own image or appraisal of himself

verb

to act in this way

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

ego-tripper noun

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of ego trip¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Origin of ego trip²

First recorded in 1965–70

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Idioms and Phrases

Behavior or activities undertaken mainly out of vanity or for self-gratification. For example, She's really on an ego trip, trying out for the lead. [1960s]

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But Trump didn’t just trash California on his ego trip last weekend to Coachella.

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This is not an ego trip by the judge.

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“American gun culture needs to be rehabilitated from an egotistical and vanity-based, hyper-individualist ego trip culture to civil service and solemn responsibility to the community,” he said.

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"And that is left-wing opposition and not the ego trip of founding a new party."

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A conservative caucus also repeatedly and deliberately referred to Zephyr with masculine pronouns while also suggesting her actions were “nothing more than an ego trip.”

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egotistic e-government

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