trip

trip: 1 /trIp/ noun
1 (C) a journey to a place and back again: Did you have a good trip? | make a trip: I couldn't carry everything at once, so I had to make several trips. | go on/take a trip: We're thinking of taking a trip to the mountains. | coach/boat trip: a boat trip up the Thames | business/school/skiing etc: a business trip to Japan | day trip (=a pleasure trip done in one day)
—see travel 1
2 (C) slang the experiences someone has while their mind is affected by a drug such as LSD: a bad trip

3 (C) an act of falling as a result of hitting something with your foot

4 (singular) AmE slang a person or experience that is amusing and very different from normal: She's a real trip.
—see also: round trip 2 verb
1 FALL also trip up (I) to hit something with your foot while you are walking or running so that you fall or almost fall: I didn't push him, he tripped.
(+ over): Pick up that box or someone will trip over it.
2 MAKE SB FALL also trip sb up (T) to make someone fall by putting your foot in front of them when they are moving: Baggio was clearly tripped inside the penalty area.

3 WALK/DANCE (intransitive always + adv/prep) literary to walk or run with quick light steps as if you are dancing: trip along/over/down etc: a little girl tripping along the lane

4 trip off the tongue to be easy to say or pronounce: Monofluorophosphate! It doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, does it?

5 trip a switch/wire to accidentally make an electrical system operate by moving part of it: Alarm bells were ringing so I must have tripped a switch on my way in.

6 DRUG also trip out (I) slang to experience the effects of an illegal drug such as LSD

7 trip the light fantastic humorous to dance
trip up phrasal verb
1 (transitive trip someone up) to trick someone into making a mistake: The questions look simple, but they're designed to trip you up.

2 (transitive trip someone up) to make someone fall by putting your foot in front of them when they are walking

3 (I) to hit something with your foot while you are walking so that you fall

4 (I) to make a mistake
(+ over): It's easy to trip up over some of the regulations.

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Synonyms:

Skip, hop, step quickly, dance, foot it, Supplant, throw off the balance, trip up, Skip, hop, light step / Stumble, lose footing, make a false step, make a false movement, Overthrow, cause to fail, supplant, upset, Stumble, false step, misstep, loss of balance / Fail, mistake, err, be at fault, come short, commit an offence, bungle, blunder, Detect, catch, convict, Slip, lapse, failure, mistake, oversight, error, blunder, fault, miss, stumble / Jaunt, excursion, tour, ramble, stroll, short journey

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trip — trip … Dictionnaire des rimes
trip — [ trip ] n. m. • 1966; « voyage » 1865; mot angl. « voyage » ♦ Anglic., fam. 1 ♦ État qui résulte de l absorption de substances hallucinogènes (notamment de L. S. D.). ⇒aussi défonce. Être en plein trip d acide. 2 ♦ (v. 1975) Aventure intérieure … Encyclopédie Universelle
Trip — may refer to:* Trip (drink), Finnish brand of juice. * Trip (song), a song by Hedley * Trip (Power Rangers), the Green Time Force Ranger on Time Force Power Rangers * TRIPs Agreement, the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual… … Wikipedia
Trip — (tr[i^]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tripped} (tr[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Tripping}.] [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See {Tramp}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
trip — [trip] vi. tripped, tripping [ME trippen < OFr treper < Gmc * trippon (> OE treppan, to step): see TRAP1] 1. to walk, run, or dance with light, rapid steps; skip; caper 2. to stumble, esp. by catching the foot 3. to make a false step,… … English World dictionary
Trip — Trip, n. 1. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip. [1913 Webster] His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 2. A brief or rapid… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
trip up — 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. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
trip — UK US /trɪp/ noun [C] ► a journey to a place, where you stay for a short time, and then come back again: go on/make/take a trip »She always flies business class when she goes on trips to the US. ► a part of a journey to or back from a place: the… … Financial and business terms
Trip — es un personaje de ficción de la serie de televisión Power Rangers, interpretado por Kevin Kleinberg. En Power Rangers: Fuerza del Tiempo Viene del planeta Xybria, de ahí el extraño color de su cabello (verde) y el cristal de visiones en su… … Wikipedia Español
Trip — Sm Ausflug, Reise erw. fremd. Erkennbar fremd (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. trip, einer Ableitung von ne. trip trippeln (trippeln). Ebenso nndl. trip, ne. trip, nschw. tripp, nnorw. tripp. ✎ DF 5 (1981), 468f.; Rey Debove/Gagnon… … Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

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