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trip

1  [trip] noun, verb, tripped, trip⋅ping.
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–noun
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.
a. a projecting object mounted on a moving part for striking a control lever to stop, reverse, or otherwise control the actions of some machine, as a milling machine or printing press.
b. a sudden release or start.
11. a catch of fish taken by a fishing vessel in a single voyage.
12. Slang.
a. an instance or period of being under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug, esp. LSD.
b. the euphoria, illusions, etc., experienced during such a period.
c. any stimulating or exciting experience: The class reunion was a real trip.
d. any intense interest or preoccupation: She's been on a nostalgia trip all week.
e. a period of time, experience, or lifestyle: Those early years in college were a bad trip.
–verb (used without object)
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.
–verb (used with object)
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.
a. to break out (an anchor) by turning over or lifting from the bottom by a line (tripping line) attached to the anchor's crown.
b. to tip or turn (a yard) from a horizontal to a vertical position.
c. to lift (an upper mast) before lowering.
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.
—Idioms
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   (trĭp)   
n.  

  1. A going from one place to another; a journey.

  2. A stumble or fall.

  3. A maneuver causing someone to stumble or fall.

  4. A mistake.

  5. Slang

    1. A hallucinatory experience induced by a psychedelic drug: an acid trip.

    2. An intense, stimulating, or exciting experience: a power trip.

    3. A usually temporary but absorbing interest or preoccupation: He's on another health food trip.

    4. A certain way of life or situation: "deny that his reclusiveness is some sort of deliberate star trip" (Patricia Bosworth).

    5. A device, such as a pawl, for triggering a mechanism.

    6. The action of such a device.

  6. Slang

    1. A usually temporary but absorbing interest or preoccupation: He's on another health food trip.

    2. A certain way of life or situation: "deny that his reclusiveness is some sort of deliberate star trip" (Patricia Bosworth).

    3. A device, such as a pawl, for triggering a mechanism.

    4. The action of such a device.

  7. A light or nimble tread.

    1. A device, such as a pawl, for triggering a mechanism.

    2. The action of such a device.

v.   tripped, trip·ping, trips

v.   intr.

  1. To stumble.

  2. To move nimbly with light rapid steps; skip.

  3. To be released, as a tooth on an escapement wheel in a watch.

  4. To make a trip.

  5. To make a mistake: tripped up on the last question.

  6. Slang To have a drug-induced hallucination.

v.   tr.

  1. To cause to stumble or fall.

  2. To trap or catch in an error or inconsistency.

  3. To release (a catch, trigger, or switch), thereby setting something in operation.

  4. Nautical

    1. To raise (an anchor) from the bottom.

    2. To tip or turn (a yardarm) into a position for lowering.

    3. To lift (an upper mast) in order to remove the fid before lowering.


[Middle English, act of tripping, from trippen, to trip, from Old French tripper, to stamp the foot, of Germanic origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
trip

  1. n.
    a prison sentence; a trip up the river. (Underworld.) : Yeah, me and Lefty both was on a little trip for a few years.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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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Idioms & Phrases

trip the light fantastic

Dance, as in Let's go out tonight and trip the light fantastic. This expression was originated by John Milton in L'Allegro (1632): "Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastick toe." The idiom uses trip in the sense of "a light, tripping step," and although fantastick was never the name of any particular dance, it survived and was given revived currency in James W. Blake's immensely popular song, The Sidewalks of New York (1894).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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