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Definition trip

Etymology 1

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 German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.

Noun

trip (plural trips)

1. a journey; an excursion or jaunt
2. a stumble or misstep
3. (figuratively) an error; a failure; a mistake
4. a period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations
5. a faux pas, a social error
6. intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition
7. (engineering) a mechanical cutout device
8. (electricity) a trip-switch or cut-out
9. a quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip
10. (obsolete) a small piece; a morsel; a bit
11. the act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing
12. (nautical) a single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward

Verb

trip (third-person singular simple present trips, present participle tripping, simple past and past participle tripped)

1. (intransitive) to fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
2. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") to cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them
3. (intransitive) to be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
4. (transitive, obsolete) to detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict
5. (transitive) to activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch
6. (intransitive) to be activated, as by a signal or an event
7. (intransitive) to experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs
8. (intransitive) to journey, to make a trip
9. (intransitive, dated) to move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip
10. (nautical) to raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free
11. (nautical) to pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it
12. (slang, African American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) to become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption

Adjective

trip (not comparable)

1. (poker slang) of or relating to trips

Etymology 2

From Middle English tryppe, from Old French trippe.

Noun

trip (plural trips)

1. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialectal) a herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
2. (obsolete) a troop of men; a host
3. a flock of wigeons

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