bliss out
verb, transitive + intransitive
blissed out; blissing out; blisses out
US slang
1
intransitive
: to experience bliss or ecstasy
Then he tells us that he longs to run away with Vicki, to marry her and bliss out forever on her good-natured sexiness.—
Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review, 16 Sept. 1990
Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review, 16 Sept. 19902
transitive
: to cause (someone) to experience bliss or ecstasy : to make (someone) blissfully happy
Other than love (which blisses out both sexes), men and women need very different things to be happy …—Lexi Petrons, Glamour, August 2005
Lexi Petrons, Glamour, August 2005
blissed-out
adjective
In his epic, entertaining and wildly successful "Dances With Wolves," Kevin Costner plays the most blissed-out Civil War soldier ever to face the frontier.
—Caryn James, New York Times, 13 Jan. 1991
Caryn James, New York Times, 13 Jan. 1991
They had respected the secretive, solitary ways of draft resisters and blissed-out hippies and marijuana farmers …
—Jane Kramer, New Yorker, 6 May 2002
Jane Kramer, New Yorker, 6 May 2002
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“Bliss out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bliss%20out. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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