spaced-out

spaced-out
/spayst"owt"/, adj. Slang.
1. dazed or stupefied because of the influence of narcotic drugs.
2. dreamily or eerily out of touch with reality or seemingly so; spacey.
Also, spaced.
[1965-70, Amer.; on the pattern of phrasal verbs with out marking perfectivity; space appar. by assoc. with "outer space" as, metaphorically, a place outside normal consciousness]

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