trip

Plural: trips

Noun

• a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
  • "he took a trip to the shopping center"
• a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
  • "an acid trip"
• an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
• an exciting or stimulating experience
• a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
  • "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water"
• a light or nimble tread
  • "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"
• an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
  • "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"
  • "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"
• A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
• A stumble or misstep.
• An error; a failure; a mistake.
• A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
• Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
• A faux pas, a social error.
• A mechanical cutout device.
• A trip-switch or cut-out.
• A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
• The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
• A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
• A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
• A troop of men; a host.
• A flock of wigeons.

Verb

Verb Forms: tripped, tripping, trips

• To stumble or fall; to activate a mechanism.
• miss a step and fall or nearly fall
• cause to stumble
  • "The questions on the test tripped him up"
• make a trip for pleasure
• put in motion or move to act
• get high, stoned, or drugged
  • "He trips every weekend"
• To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
• To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
• To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
• To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
• To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
• To be activated, as by a signal or an event
• Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
• To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
• To journey, to make a trip.
• To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
• To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
• To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
• To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
• To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
• To act foolishly or irrationally.

Adj

• Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).

Examples

• A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.
• After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.
• Be careful not to trip on those tree roots. You tripped over the cat and fell downstairs just last week.
• ego trip
• guilt trip
• He had a strange trip after taking LSD.
• He was careful not to trip over his own words, ensuring each play was valid.
• He was injured due to a trip down the stairs.
• It's dark because the trip operated.
• Last summer, we tripped to the coast.
• nostalgia trip
• power trip
• The alarm system tripped, throwing everyone into a panic.
• We made a trip to the beach.
• When we get into the factory, trip the lights.

Synonyms

activate, actuate, get off, head trip, jaunt, misstep, set off, slip, spark, spark off, stumble, touch off, travel, trigger, trigger off, trip out, trip up, trip-up, tripper, turn on, aberration, barbarism, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, break, clanger, cock-up, erroneity, error, fault, faux pas, floater, flub, fluff, fuckup, gaffe, goof, howler, inaccuracy, lapse, lapsus, mess-up, mistake, oopsy, screwup, slip-up, slipup, solecism, thinko, wrength

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