trip
IPA: trˈɪp
noun
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A stumble or misstep.
- (figurative, archaic) An error; a failure; a mistake.
- (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- A faux pas, a social error.
- (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
- (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
- (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
- A flock of wigeons.
verb
- (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
- (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
- (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
- (intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
- (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- (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
- (poker slang) Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).
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