SINCE 1828
bliss out
verb, transitive + intransitive
blissed out;
blissing out;
blisses out
Definition of bliss 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
2
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
Other Words from bliss out
blissed-out
\ ˈblist-ˈau̇t 
\
adjective
\
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
They had respected the secretive, solitary ways of draft resisters and blissed-out hippies and marijuana farmers …
— Jane Kramer, New Yorker, 6 May 2002
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