English Explanatory Dictionary

trip

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
  2. A stumble or misstep.
  3. An error; a failure; a mistake.
  4. A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
  5. Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
  6. A faux pas, a social error.
  7. A mechanical cutout device.
  8. A trip-switch or cut-out.
  9. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
  10. The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
  11. A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
verb
  1. To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
  2. To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
  3. To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
  4. To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
  5. To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
  6. To be activated, as by a signal or an event
  7. Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
  8. To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
  9. To journey, to make a trip.
  10. To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
  11. To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
  12. To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
adj
  1. Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).
noun
  1. A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
  2. A troop of men; a host.
  3. A flock of wigeons.

Pronunciation

trĭp /tɹɪp/ [tʰɹɪp] [t͡ʃɹɪp] en-us-trip.ogg En-uk-a trip.ogg en-au-tip.ogg

Word forms

trip trips tripping tripped

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

aberration bloomer blooper blunder boner boo-boo break clanger cock-up error fault faux pas floater flub fluff fuckup gaffe goof howler inaccuracy lapse lapsus mess-up misstep mistake oopsy screwup slip slip-up slipup stumble thinko wrength solecism erroneity

Related words

tray-trip

Derived words

businessman's trip facility trip foot trip have a safe trip home round-trip trip computer trip cord trip down memory lane trip hammer trip hop trip log trip meter trip odometer trip recorder trip sill trip sit trip sitter trip sitting trip slip trip switch trip tic trip to Jerusalem trip to the woodshed trip working trippy atrip trip balls tripcock trip from the tongue trip off the tongue trip out trip over trip over oneself trip over one's feet trip over one's own two feet tripper trip the light fantastic trip up tripwire trip wire

Translations

Finnish: murunen Finnish: muru Polish: kawałek
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