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- DictionaryTrip/trip/
verb
- 1. catch one's foot on something and stumble or fall: "he tripped over his cat" Similar stumblelose one's footingcatch one's footsliplose one's balancestaggertotterslidefallfall downtumbletoppletake a spilldated:measure one's length
- ▪ cause to stumble and fall: "she shot out her foot to trip him up"
- ▪ make a mistake: "taxpayers often trip up by not declaring taxable income" Similar make a mistakemiscalculatemake a blunderblundergo wrongget something wrongmake an errorerrinformal:slip upscrew upmake a boo-booboobdrop a clangergoof up
- ▪ detect or expose someone in an error, blunder, or inconsistency: "the man was determined to trip him up on his economics" Similar catch outtraptrickoutwitoutsmartput someone off their stridethrow off balancedisconcertunsettlediscountenancediscomfitinformal:throwwrong-footcatch on the hop
- 2. walk, run, or dance with quick light steps: "they tripped up the terrace steps" Similar run lightlyskipdanceprancewaltzboundspringhopgambolcaperfriskscamperOpposite trudge
- ▪ (of words) flow lightly and easily: "a name that trips off the tongue"
- 3. activate (a mechanism), especially by contact with a switch, catch, or other electrical device: "an intruder trips the alarm" Similar set offactivatetriggerturn onswitch onflipthrow
- ▪ (of part of an electric circuit) disconnect automatically as a safety measure: "the plugs will trip as soon as any change in current is detected"
- 4. release and raise (an anchor) from the seabed by means of a buoyed line attached to the anchor's crown.
- ▪ turn (a yard or other object) from a horizontal to a vertical position for lowering.
- 5. experience hallucinations induced by taking a psychedelic drug, especially LSD: informal "they prance around tripping out on their hallucinogens"
- ▪ be behaving in an irrational or crazy way: North American "you're tripping if you think I'm hanging around"
- 6. go on a short journey: "when tripping through the Yukon take some time to explore our museums" Similar traveltake a tripgo on a trip/excursion/journeyjourneytourtrekhikecruiserare:peregrinate
noun
- 1. an act of going to a place and returning; a journey or excursion, especially for pleasure: "Sally's gone on a school trip" Similar excursionoutingjauntvisittourjourneyexpeditionvoyagetransferdriverunday outpilgrimageholidayminibreakinformal:junketspinhophurlrare:peregrination
- 2. a stumble or fall due to catching one's foot on something: "trips and falls cause nearly half of all accidents" Similar stumbleslipmisstepfalse stepfalltumblespill
- ▪ a mistake: archaic "an occasional trip in the performance" Similar mistakeerrorblundergaffeslipslip of the tongue/penlapseoversightindiscretionfaux paslapsus linguaelapsus calamiinformal:slip-upboo-boobonerhowlerfailboobclangergoofblooperbloop
- 3. a hallucinatory experience caused by taking a psychedelic drug, especially LSD: informal "acid trips"
- ▪ an exciting or stimulating experience: "it was a trip seeing him again"
- ▪ a self-indulgent attitude or activity: "politics was a sixties trip"
- 4. a device that activates or disconnects a mechanism, circuit, etc.: "a trip mechanism"
- 5. a light, lively movement of a person's feet: archaic "yonder comes Dalinda; I know her by her trip"
Word Origin Middle English: from Old French triper, from Middle Dutch trippen ‘to skip, hop’.
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