English Explanatory Dictionary

trip sitter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who watches over a person who is using drugs.

Word forms

trip sitter trip sitters trip-sitter

Etymology

Of trip (“period of drug-induced reverie”) + sitter (“one who watches or tends something”). Attested from the 20th century; see quotations below.

Related words

trip sit
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