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- noun The practice of engaging in
power trips
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Examples
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As I walked up to the second station I was greeted by two power-tripping guards that quickly welcomed me into the reality of the horrors of governmental and private company unions and their inane bureaucracies.
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The term for this sort of thing is "triumphalism," and the aims are always the same: deliberate offence, humiliation, power-tripping.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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This is the doctor whose power-tripping secretary always insists that I come in for refills, and the earliest appointment I could get was next week.
Story + Cards s00j 2009
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We get to see Adama choking Boomer, Colonel Tigh (Michael Hogan) power-tripping while hitting the bottle, Cali flipping out with a gun, the president claiming to be a prophet and dividing the fleet ... even Number Six (Tricia Helfer) is almost tolerable this season.
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At least the president gets moderately tolerable after she stops being Miss Perfect and starts power-tripping.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Kirkpatrick seems on a mission to rehabilitate Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and to a certain extent he succeeds, suggesting Zuckerberg's reputation as the petulant, erratic, power-tripping brat who doesn't give a damn is misguided.
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Kirkpatrick seems on a mission to rehabilitate Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and to a certain extent he succeeds, suggesting Zuckerberg's reputation as the petulant, erratic, power-tripping brat who doesn't give a damn is misguided.
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The same thing would happen if all three committee members were men and one guy was an overbearing, power-tripping jerk.
How To Respond? 2008
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We get to see Adama choking Boomer, Colonel Tigh (Michael Hogan) power-tripping while hitting the bottle, Cali flipping out with a gun, the president claiming to be a prophet and dividing the fleet ... even Number Six (Tricia Helfer) is almost tolerable this season.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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At least the president gets moderately tolerable after she stops being Miss Perfect and starts power-tripping.
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