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What (who) is trip - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
TRIP; The Trip; The Trip (television); Trip (Album); The Trip (song); Trip (disambiguation); Trip (album); Trip (song); The Trip (TV series); The Trip (film); T.R.I.P.; Trips (album); Trips; The Trip (album); The Trip (band)
trip
(trips, tripping, tripped)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A trip is a journey that you make to a particular place.
On the Thursday we went out on a day trip...
Mark was sent to the Far East on a business trip.
N-COUNT
see also round trip
2.
If you trip when you are walking, you knock your foot against something and fall or nearly fall.
She tripped and fell last night and broke her hip...
He tried to follow Jack's footsteps in the snow and tripped on a rock...
VERB: V, V on/over n
•
I tripped up and hurt my foot...
Make sure trailing flexes are kept out of the way so you don't trip up over them.
PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P on/over n
3.
If you trip someone who is walking or running, you put your foot or something else in front of them, so that they knock their own foot against it and fall or nearly fall.
One guy stuck his foot out and tried to trip me.
VERB: V n
•
He made a sudden dive for Uncle Jim's legs to try to trip him up...
PHRASAL VERB: V n P
4.
If you say that someone is, for example, on a power trip, a guilt trip, or a nostalgia trip, you mean that their behaviour is motivated by power, guilt, or nostalgia. (INFORMAL)
There's such pressure to be happy in Hawaii, if you're unhappy you're on a guilt trip...
The biggest star perk, and the biggest power trip, must be the private plane.
N-COUNT: usu on n N [disapproval]
5.
A trip is an experience that someone has when their mind is affected by a drug such as LSD. (INFORMAL)
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6.
If someone is tripping, they are having an experience in which their mind is affected by a drug such as LSD. (INFORMAL)
One night I was tripping on acid.
VERB: usu cont, V on n, also V
7.
If someone trips somewhere, they walk there with light, quick steps. (LITERARY)
A girl in a red smock tripped down the hill...
VERB: V prep/adv
trip
¦ verb (trips, tripping, tripped)
1. catch one's foot on something and stumble or fall.
2. (trip up) make a mistake.
(trip someone up) detect or expose someone in a mistake or inconsistency.
3. walk, run, or dance with quick light steps.
(of words) flow lightly and easily: a name which trips off the tongue.
4. activate (a mechanism), especially by contact with a switch.
(of part of an electric circuit) disconnect automatically as a safety measure.
5. Nautical release and raise (an anchor) from the seabed by means of a cable.
turn (a yard or other object) from a horizontal to a vertical position for lowering.
6. informal experience hallucinations induced by taking a psychedelic drug, especially LSD.
7. go on a short journey.
¦ noun
1. a journey or excursion, especially for pleasure.
2. an instance of tripping.
3. informal a hallucinatory experience caused by taking a psychedelic drug.
a self-indulgent attitude or activity: a power trip.
4. a device that trips a mechanism, circuit, etc.
5. archaic a light, lively movement of a person's feet.
Phrases
trip the light fantastic humorous dance. [from 'Trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe' (Milton's L'Allegro).]
Origin
ME: from OFr. triper, from MDu. trippen 'to skip, hop'.
trip
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n.
1) to go on, make, take a trip (she went on a trip; I've made this trip many times; we would like to take a trip)
2) to arrange, organize, plan a trip
3) to cancel; postpone a trip
4) an extended, long; short trip
5) a business; camping; field; pleasure; return; round; round-the-world; wedding trip (we are planning a round-the-world trip)
6) a trip from; to (they went on a trip to Canada; to take a trip from England to Australia)
7) a trip through (a trip through the west)
8) on a trip (she was away on a trip)
9) (misc.) an ego trip ('an action that satisfies one's ego')
II
v. (D; intr.) ('to stumble') to trip on, over (to trip on a rock; she was tripping over every word)
Examples of use of trip
1. Obama‘s trip to Iraq and Afghanistan was an official congressional trip, paid for with federal funds.
2. The fare: $28 round trip per person, $12 round trip per bike.
3. LIBBY thereafter discussed with Miller Wilson‘s trip and criticized the CIA reporting concerning Wilson‘s trip.
4. Whether or not it gets done during the trip – before the trip or during the trip – we will have to see.
5. That was one of the things that helped me to make a second trip, and a third trip, and more recently, a fourth trip.