trip

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

• enPR: trĭp, IPA^(key): /tɹɪp/

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trip (plural trips)

1. a journey; an excursion or jaunt

   We made a trip to the beach.

   • Alexander Pope

     I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.

2. a stumble or misstep

   He was injured due to a trip down the stairs.

3. (figuratively) an error; a failure; a mistake
   • John Milton

     Imperfect words, with childish trips.

   • Harte

     Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.

4. a period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations

   He had a strange trip after taking LSD.

5. a faux pas, a social error
6. intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition

   ego trip;  power trip;  nostalgia trip;  guilt trip

7. (engineering) a mechanical cutout device
8. (electricity) a trip-switch or cut-out

   It's dark because the trip operated.

9. a quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip

   trip the light fantastic ^W

   • Sir Walter Scott

     His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.

10. (obsolete) a small piece; a morsel; a bit
    • Geoffrey Chaucer

      a trip of cheese

11. the act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing
    • John Dryden

      And watches with a trip his foe to foil.

    • South

      It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

12. (nautical) a single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward

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• trippy

• trip down memory lane
• trip hop
• trip to the woodshed

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

   Be careful not to trip on the tree roots.

2. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") to cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble

   A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5

     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. (intransitive) to be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
   • John Locke

     till his tongue trip

   • South

     A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.

   • Dryden

     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. (transitive, obsolete) to detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict
   • Shakespeare

     These her women can trip me if I err.

5. (transitive) 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.

6. (intransitive) to be activated, as by a signal or an event

   The alarm system tripped, throwing everyone into a panic.

7. (intransitive) to experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs

   After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.

8. (intransitive) to journey, to make a trip

   Last summer we tripped to the coast.

9. (intransitive, dated) to move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip
   • Milton

     Come, and trip it, as you go, / On the light fantastic toe.

   • Dryden

     She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.

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
    • 2003, “What's a Pimp?”, in Married to the Game, performed by Too $hort:

      If she ain't with it, I find another little chick
      I'm quick to switch, even when I was six
      I had a backup bitch, when my bitch would trip
      I'd go play with my other girlfriend and get me a kiss
      And at the age of thirty-six I'm to the same old tricks

trip (not comparable)

1. (poker slang) of or relating to trips

From Middle English tryppe, from Old French trippe.

trip (plural trips)

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Robert of Brunne to this entry?)

3. a flock of wigeons

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trip f or m (plural trips, diminutive tripje n)

1. a trip, a short excursion, a vacation, travelling
2. hallucination, tripping

From Anglo-Norman trippe (“dance”).

• trippe

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrip(ə)/

trip (plural trippus)

1. A action that leads to a trip, fall or a bump; that which causes a misstep.
2. (rare) A motion in a dance.
3. (rare, Late Middle English) A voyage; an excursion.

• English: trip
• Scots: trip

• “trip(pe (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-08.

From Old French trippe (“herd”).

trip

1. Alternative form of tryppe

trip m (plural trips)

1. trip (hallucination)

Borrowed from English trip, alluding to the flow of thought while under the influence of LSD.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾip/

trip

1. (slang) idea, especially something fatuous, usually by one under the influence.
   • 1989, National Mid-week

     May asawa at anak ang lalaki, pero trip niya ang mamboso at mambastos sa telcpono. Ginagamit ng lalaki ang ... ang mensahe ng pelikula. Ang problema ay nakaka-depress dahil mahirap labanan nang ganoon ang lalaking sira ang ulo.

     The man has a wife and a son, but he has the stupid idea of harassing and flirting with women on the telephone. The man uses passages from movies. The problem is depressing because it's difficult to fight such an stupid man.

   • 1998, Honorio Bartolome De Dios, Sa Labas Ng Parlor, University of Philippines Press (→ISBN)

     Siguro nga napapayag mo siya, pero, nilasing mo 'yung tao, e. Hindi ko siya nilasing. Pareho kaming lasing n'ung gabing 'yun. Arnold, kilala ko ang kumpare ko. Matagal na kaming magkasama niyan. Ang trip talaga niyan 'pag lasing, sex.

     You possible enticed her, but, you made the person drunk, don't you? I didn't made her drunk. We're both drunk that night. Arnold, I know my buddies. We've been together for long. What she thinks when drunk is sex.

   • 2008, Khavn De La Cruz, Khavn, Ultraviolins, UP Press (→ISBN), page 182:

     Wala, trip ko lang, wala lang akong magawa. May reklamo ka? Ako wala. Wala akong pakialam sa yo at sa kung ano mang iniisip mo. Bakit sa SM? Kase. Kase pareho ng initials ko. Yun lang.

     Nothing, just my stupid idea, ['coz] I have nothing to do. Any problems? I have none. I don't mind you and anything you thing. Why in SM? Coz. Coz it's the same initials as mine. Just that.

   Trip ko lang ang mambasag ng mga bintana ng kotse, kasi sabog ako non.

   It's just my stupid idea to break car windows, 'coz I'm high that time.

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