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Trip   /trɪp/   Listen
Trip

noun
1.
A journey for some purpose (usually including the return).
2.
A hallucinatory experience induced by drugs.
3.
An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall.  Synonym: slip.  "The jolt caused many slips and a few spills"
4.
An exciting or stimulating experience.  Synonym: head trip.
5.
A catch mechanism that acts as a switch.  Synonym: tripper.
6.
A light or nimble tread.
7.
An unintentional but embarrassing blunder.  Synonyms: misstep, stumble, trip-up.  "He arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later" , "Confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
verb
(past & past part. tripped; pres. part. tripping)
1.
Miss a step and fall or nearly fall.  Synonym: stumble.
2.
Cause to stumble.  Synonym: trip up.
3.
Make a trip for pleasure.  Synonyms: jaunt, travel.
4.
Put in motion or move to act.  Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off.  "Actuate the circuits"
5.
Get high, stoned, or drugged.  Synonyms: get off, trip out, turn on.



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"Trip" Quotes from Famous Books



... was a look in her eyes which made a trip-hammer of his heart. Never had her face—less of the mere pretty young girl's than he had ever seen it, somewhat worn beneath its color, a little wistful under her smile—seemed to him so immeasurably sweet. In his blood Straus and the famous Verzenay plied their dizzying vocations. Suddenly he leaned ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... colloquy with his uncle, Newton was very busy perambulating the streets of London, in search of various requisites for his trip to India, when his hand was seized before he had time to call to mind the features of the party who shook it with such ...
— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat
... awkward for him to manage, he succeeded, after infinite trouble, in balancing it on his head and went away gingerly, tink-a-tink, tin k- a-tink, down the road, with his tail over his arm for fear he should trip on it. And all the time he kept saying to himself, "What a lucky fellow I am! and clever, too! Such a hand at ...
— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten
... number, walked. John and the doctor walked with them. All the automobiles were in use carrying troops to the front, but the carts were strong and comfortable and John did not mind. It ought to be a pleasant trip. ...
— The Forest of Swords - A Story of Paris and the Marne • Joseph A. Altsheler
... necessity of breaking the sky-line with something less ugly—even if it did cost a little more. Still a third group were in shouts of laughter over a story told by one of the staff who had just returned from an inspection trip west. ...
— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith


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