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

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

blissed-out

ˈblist-ˈau̇t 

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

Word History

First Known Use

1973, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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