space (out) v.1
(US) to daydream, to drift off, esp. when under the influence of drugs.
‘Sl. of Watts’ in Current Sl. III:2. | ||
Campus Sl. Mar. 7: space – to be insensitive to what is happening. | ||
Catch a Fire 251: Rattled West Indian immigrants swore off ganja [...] convinced they had somehow spaced out and missed a year of Wailers 45s. | ||
Get Shorty [film script] Yo, Chili, you’re spacin’. | ||
Mad mag. June 37: Man, I totally spaced. | ||
Call of the Weird (2006) 34: ‘Oh yes,’ he said, recovering himself. ‘I remember. I’m sorry, I spaced out a little there.’. | ||
On the Bro’d 299: Then he like just spaced out and checked his phone. |