trip

Meanings

Noun

• A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
• A stumble or misstep.
• An error; a failure; a mistake.
• A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
• Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
• A faux pas, a social error.
• A mechanical cutout device.
• A trip-switch or cut-out.
• A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
• A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
• The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
• A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
• a herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
• a troop of men; a host
• a flock of wigeons

Verb

• to fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
• to cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them
• to be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
• to detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict
• to activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch
• to be activated, as by a signal or an event
• to experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs
• to journey, to make a trip
• to move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip
• to raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free
• to pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it
• to become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption

Adjective

• of or relating to trips

Related

Narrower meaning words

• bad trip
• boat trip
• business trip
• day trip
• ego trip
• fam trip
• field trip
• guilt trip
• head trip
• pleasure trip
• power trip
• road trip
• round trip
• school trip

Origin

• 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 (> 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 trippeln ("to scurry"), Old English treppan ("to trample, tread"). Related also to trap, tramp.
• From Middle English tryppe, from Old French trippe.