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trip

UK/tɹəp/ US/tɹɪp/ very common slang uk
noun (7) verb (5)

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”
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4.

an exciting or stimulting experience

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5.

a catch mechanism that acts as a switch

  • “the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water”
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6.

a light or nimble tread

  • “he heard the trip of women”
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”
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verb

1.

miss a step and fall or nearly fall

  • “She stumbled over the tree root”
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2.

cause to stumble

  • “The questions on the test tripped him up”
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3.

make a trip for pleasure

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4.

put in motion or move to act

  • “trigger a reaction”
  • “actuate the circuits”
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5.

get high, stoned, or drugged

  • “He trips every weekend”
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Origin

From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.

Phrases

  • businessman's trip
  • facility trip
  • foot trip
  • have a safe trip home
  • trip balls
  • trip computer
  • trip cord
  • trip down memory lane
  • trip from the tongue
  • trip hammer
  • trip off the tongue
  • trip out

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