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Trip

noun

1.

A journey for some purpose (usually including the return).

2.

A hallucinatory experience induced by drugs.

3.

An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall. Synonym: slip. "The jolt caused many slips and a few spills"

4.

An exciting or stimulating experience. Synonym: head trip.

5.

A catch mechanism that acts as a switch. Synonym: tripper.

6.

A light or nimble tread.

7.

An unintentional but embarrassing blunder. Synonyms: misstep, stumble, trip-up. "He arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later" , "Confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"

verb

(past & past part. tripped; pres. part. tripping)

1.

Miss a step and fall or nearly fall. Synonym: stumble.

2.

Cause to stumble. Synonym: trip up.

3.

Make a trip for pleasure. Synonyms: jaunt, travel.

4.

Put in motion or move to act. Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off. "Actuate the circuits"

5.

Get high, stoned, or drugged. Synonyms: get off, trip out, turn on.

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"Trip" Quotes from Famous Books

... face yet, Mag, and every time I think of it, it makes me nearly die of laughing. He had actually been fooled another time. It was worth the trip up there, to make a guy of ...

— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson

... her lute's deep slumbers, And, as at morning's touch updarting, The notes beneath her fingers starting, Trip o'er the strings in ...

— The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano - Tales from the German of Tieck • Ludwig Tieck

... as it were, slide against the wind at an angle and move the ship ahead, first to one side of the straight line towards the place she wants to reach, and then, after turning her head, to the other. It was in 1539 that Fletcher made his trial trip, to the great amazement of the shipping in the Channel. Thus by 1545, that year of naval changes, the new sailing age had certainly begun to live and the old rowing age had certainly begun to die. The invention ...

— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood

... indifference of Bjoernson to small matters sometimes proved annoying. In this connection I may tell of a little trip he ...

— Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson • William Morton Payne

... days have been one continued fever of excitement, and I have scarcely opened my journal. This trip to Europe was finally decided upon in such haste, that we have known hardly ...

— Mabel's Mistake • Ann S. Stephens

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