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[trip] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, tripped, trip·ping.
[trip] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, tripped, trip·ping. –noun
–verb (used without object)
–verb (used with object)
—Idioms
| 1. | a journey or voyage: to win a trip to Paris. |
| 2. | a journey, voyage, or run made by a boat, train, bus, or the like, between two points: It's a short trip from Baltimore to Philadelphia. |
| 3. | round trip (defs. 1, 2). |
| 4. | a single journey or course of travel taken as part of one's duty, work, etc.: his daily trip to the bank. |
| 5. | a stumble; misstep. |
| 6. | a sudden impeding or catching of a person's foot so as to throw the person down, esp. in wrestling. |
| 7. | a slip, mistake, error, or blunder. |
| 8. | an error or lapse in conduct or etiquette. |
| 9. | a light, nimble step or movement of the feet. |
| 10. | Machinery.
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| 11. | a catch of fish taken by a fishing vessel in a single voyage. |
| 12. | Slang.
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| 13. | to stumble: to trip over a child's toy. |
| 14. | to make a slip, error, or mistake, as in conversation or conduct. |
| 15. | to step lightly or nimbly; skip; dance. |
| 16. | to go with a light, quick step or tread: She tripped gaily across the room. |
| 17. | to make a journey or excursion. |
| 18. | to tip or tilt. |
| 19. | Horology. (of a tooth on an escape wheel) to slide past the face of the pallet by which it is supposed to be locked and strike the pallet in such a way as to move the balance or pendulum improperly. |
| 20. | Slang. to be under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug, esp. LSD (often fol. by out): He tripped out on peyote. |
| 21. | to cause to stumble (often fol. by up): The rug tripped him up. |
| 22. | to cause to fail; hinder, obstruct, or overthrow. |
| 23. | to cause to make a slip or error (often fol. by up): to trip up a witness by skillful questioning. |
| 24. | to catch in a slip or error. |
| 25. | to tip or tilt. |
| 26. | Nautical.
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| 27. | to operate, start, or set free (a mechanism, weight, etc.) by suddenly releasing a catch, clutch, or the like. |
| 28. | Machinery. to release or operate suddenly (a catch, clutch, etc.). |
| 29. | wedge (def. 17). |
| 30. | to tread or dance lightly upon (the ground, floor, etc.). |
| 31. | Archaic. to perform with a light or tripping step, as a dance. |
| 32. | lay a trip on, Slang. to inflict one's preoccupations or obsessions on (another person): Mother's been trying to lay a guilt trip on me about leaving home. |
| 33. | trip the light fantastic, Facetious. to go dancing. |
[Origin: 1350–1400; 1960–65 for def. 12; ME trippen to step lightly < OF trip(p)er < MD; cf. early D trippen, D trippelen (freq. with -el), akin to OE treppan to tread]
] —Synonyms 1. excursion, tour, jaunt, junket. Trip, expedition, journey, pilgrimage, voyage are terms for a course of travel made to a particular place, usually for some specific purpose. Trip is the general word, indicating going any distance and returning, by walking or any means of locomotion, for either business or pleasure, and in either a hurried or a leisurely manner: a trip to Europe; a vacation trip; a bus trip. An expedition, made often by an organized company, is designed to accomplish a specific purpose: an archaeological expedition. Journey indicates a trip of considerable length, wholly or mainly by land, for business or pleasure or other reasons, and is now applied to travel that is more leisurely or more fatiguing than a trip; a return is not necessarily indicated: the long journey to Tibet. A pilgrimage is made as to a shrine, from motives of piety or veneration: a pilgrimage to Lourdes. A voyage is travel by water or air, usually for a long distance and for business or pleasure; if by water, leisure is indicated: a voyage around the world. 7. lapse, oversight. 14. bungle, blunder, err.
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[trip] Pronunciation Key
[trip] Pronunciation Key –noun British Dialect.
| a group of animals, as sheep, goats, or fowl; flock. |
[Origin: 1275–1325; ME; appar. special use of trip1 in the sense of a group moving together, hence gang, flock]
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| trip
(trĭp) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. tripped, trip·ping, trips v. intr.
v. tr.
[Middle English, act of tripping, from trippen, to trip, from Old French tripper, to stamp the foot, of Germanic origin.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
trip (v.)
trip (v.)
c.1380 (implied in tripper), "tread or step lightly, skip, caper," from O.Fr. tripper "strike with the feet" (12c.), from a Gmc. source (cf. M.Du. trippen "to skip, trip, hop," Low Ger. trippeln, Fris. tripje, Du. trappen, O.E. treppan "to tread, trample") related to trap. The sense of "strike with the foot and cause to stumble" is first recorded c.1425. Meaning "to release" (a catch, lever, etc.) is recorded from 1897; trip-wire is attested from 1916.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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trip (n.)
trip (n.)
"act or action of tripping," 1660, from trip (v.); sense of "a short journey or voyage" is from 1691, originally a nautical term, the connection is uncertain. The meaning "psychedelic drug experience" is first recorded 1959 as a noun; the verb in this sense is from 1966, from the noun.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| trip | |
noun | |
| 1. | a journey for some purpose (usually including the return); "he took a trip to the shopping center" |
| 2. | a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs; "an acid trip" |
| 3. | an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills" [syn: slip] |
| 4. | an exciting or stimulating experience |
| 5. | a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water" [syn: tripper] |
| 6. | a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead" |
| 7. | an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep" |
verb | |
| 1. | miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root" [syn: stumble] |
| 2. | cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up" |
| 3. | make a trip for pleasure [syn: travel] |
| 4. | put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" |
| 5. | get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend" |
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This
trip
In addition to the idioms beginning with trip, also see bad trip; ego trip; round trip.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Trip
Trip\, n. i. [imp. & p. p. Tripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tripping.] [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See Tramp.]1. To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5. This horse anon began to trip and dance. --Chaucer. Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. --Milton. She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight. --Dryden. 2. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe. 3. To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble. 4. Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail. "Till his tongue trip." --Locke. A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble. --South. Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure. --Dryden. What? dost thou verily trip upon a word? --R. Browning.
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Trip
Trip\, v. t. 1. To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling. The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of his cause. --Abp. Bramhall. 2. Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail. To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword. --Shak. 3. To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict. [R.] These her women can trip me if I err. --Shak. 4. (Naut.) (a) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. (b) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it. 5. (Mach.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent.
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Trip
Trip\, n. 1. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip. His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door. --Sir W. Scott. 2. A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt. I took a trip to London on the death of the queen. --Pope. 3. A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake. Imperfect words, with childish trips. --Milton. Each seeming trip, and each digressive start. --Harte. 4. A small piece; a morsel; a bit. [Obs.] "A trip of cheese." --Chaucer. 5. A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing. And watches with a trip his foe to foil. --Dryden. It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. --South. 6. (Naut.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward. 7. A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scott.] 8. A troop of men; a host. [Obs.] --Robert of Brunne. 9. (Zo["o]l.) A flock of widgeons.
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