power trip

1. 1.

   (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people

   Broadercontrol

   slang

Questions about power trip

What does power trip mean?

power trip means "(slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people".

Is power trip a common word?

power trip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.