1. An act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance
   "His constant ego trip at meetings annoyed his colleagues";
   - self-aggrandizement, self-aggrandisement [Brit]

1. Behave in a way that demonstrates an exaggerated sense of self-importance
   "This teacher always ego-trips and the students don't like him"

Derived forms: ego-trips, ego-tripped, ego-tripping, ego trips

Type of: act, aggrandisement [Brit], aggrandizement, elevation, move

Encyclopedia: Ego trip