Trip - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |trɪp|  American pronunciation of the word trip
Brit.  |trɪp|  British pronunciation of the word trip

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 (syn: slip)
- an exciting or stimulating experience
- a catch mechanism that acts as a switch (syn: tripper)
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 (syn: misstep, stumble)
he recited the whole poem without a single trip
he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later

verb

- miss a step and fall or nearly fall (syn: stumble)
- cause to stumble
The questions on the test tripped him up
- make a trip for pleasure (syn: jaunt, travel)
- put in motion or move to act (syn: activate, actuate, set off, spark, touch off, trigger)
- get high, stoned, or drugged (syn: get off, turn on)
He trips every weekend

Extra examples

He deliberately tried to trip me.

The dancers tripped off the stage.

They got back from their trip yesterday.

He was on an acid trip.

Two trips were required to transport the goods.

A trip in one point would have spoiled all.

It was quite a trip talking to you.

She tripped before us up the stairs to the drawing room.

Alarm bells were ringing so I must have tripped a switch on my way in.

He was very glad when he found an author tripping.

He tripped up a witness by artful questions.

He has been tripping for three weeks.

She said goodbye and tripped off along the road.

Helen looked stunning as she tripped down the stairs in her ball gown.

I shall trip to Paris in about a fortnight.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: trip
he/she/it: trips
present participle: tripping
past tense: tripped
past participle: tripped
noun
singular: trip
plural: trips
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