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Definition of Power trip
1. Noun. (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people.
Definition of Power trip
1. Noun. Any activity which confers a sense of power on the person involved ¹
2. Noun. The excitement that results from such an activity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Power Trip
Literary usage of Power trip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice: A Manual of Shop Practice, Pattern edited by Howard Monroe Raymond (1904)
"Hammers are of three kinds commonly known as power, trip, and steam. The trip
hammer is usually formed of a heavy beam carried on trunnions near one end. ..."
2. Modern Engineering Practice: Steam, Electricity, Mechanics by Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, Ill American School (Chicago, American School (Chicago, Ill.) (1903)
"Hammers are of three kinds commonly known as power, trip, and steam. The trip
hammer is usually formed of a heavy beam carried on trunnions near one end. ..."
3. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1898)
"In such a crisis no attempt could be made to carry out complete trials; and a
full-power trip was the most ..."
4. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1905)
"... and the striking hammer is of 16 or 18 Ib. It is operated by foot-power.
One man and his helper ran rig the device up in one day. Foot-power trip-Hammer ..."
5. History of the Town of Whately, Mass.: Including a Narrative of Leading by James Monroe Crafts, Josiah Howard Temple (1899)
"... with a power trip hammer, after him James Cutter, then Solomon Graves and
another, whose name I don't recall. Elijah Sanderson had wood turning, ..."
6. Screamfree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool by Hal Edward Runkel (2005)
"... space (as we talked about in Section Two), putting them in their All patterns
no place does not come across as an author- matter how itarian power trip. ..."
7. Tomorrow's Women by Helen Wilkinson, Melanie Howard (1997)
"... Marten Boots Baywatch babe 0 Tank Girl Bunny girls 0 Chippendale boys quality
of life 0 performance related pay shopping trip 0 power trip married to Mr ..."
8. Geological Survey of Japan: Reports of Progress for 1878 and 1879 by Benjamin Smith Lyman (1879)
"It is possible too that it would be cheapest with water power trip hammers to
forgo the large lumps into more suitable shapes without breaking them up into ..."
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