trip
Forms
- Plural
- trips
- present (v1)
- trip
- past (v2)
- tripped
- past participle (v3)
- tripped
- present participle
- tripping
- 3rd person singular
- trips
Definitions
1.A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- I took a weekend trip to Seville.
- We make annual trips to the museum.
- They have been on a trip since last month.
2.A stumble or misstep.
- He was injured due to a trip down the stairs.
3.A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.(colloquial)
- He had a strange trip after taking LSD.
4.Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- Many of them admit to having suppressed any tendency toward homosexual behavior for the greater part of their lives, yet, denial becomes too heavy a trip after a period of time, and eventually curiosity wins out.
1.To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- Be careful not to trip on those tree roots. You tripped over the cat and fell downstairs just last week.
2.To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.
- Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
3.To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- "No, Mrs. Curzon-Bowlby," he said; "if I danced I should be tripping indeed, in Gleicester opinion."
- A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
- Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure.
4.To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- When we get into the factory, trip the lights.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1056
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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”)).