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behaviour that reveals an over-estimation of one's own importance or abilities

For example

  • Mike decided to run for mayor, but most people dismissed it as just another one of his ego trips.
  • Driving around town in a red Ferrari was such an ego trip for Trevor. Watching people stare at him in awe and envy made him feel an inch or two taller.

If someone's on an ego trip, they're doing something that shows they think they're

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  • 1.1 Etymology
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Originally US drug subcultures, late 1960s.

ego trip ( plural ego trips )

  • An act of self-aggrandizement , undertaken to increase one's own power and influence or to draw attention to one's own importance .

Derived terms

  • ego-trip ( verb )
  • ego-tripper

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Her charitable activity was one long ego trip.

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

verb (used without object)

  • to behave in a self-serving manner.
  • something undertaken to boost or draw attention to a person's own image or appraisal of himself
  • to act in this way

Other Words From

  • ego-tripper noun

Word History and Origins

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Idioms and Phrases

Example sentences.

I really hate those 1990s interventions where you just tripped over stuff, which was like an ego-trip.

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Définition de ego-trip dans le dictionnaire anglais.

The definition of ego-trip in the dictionary is to do something in a way that is intended to boost or draw attention to yourself.

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to do something or go somewhere very slowly, taking more time than is necessary

Like a bull in a china shop: talking about people who are clumsy

Like a bull in a china shop: talking about people who are clumsy

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    1. something undertaken to boost or draw attention to a person's own image or appraisal of himself or herself. verb ego-trip Word forms: -trips, -tripping, -tripped (intransitive) 2. to act in this way. Collins English Dictionary.

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