trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trĭp
ipa: /tɹɪp/
ipa: [t͡ʃɹɪp]
ipa: [tʰɹɪp]
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: trips
Etymology: 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 trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.
Senses: examples: text: We made a trip to the beach.
text: I sold my horse and took a trip to Ceylon and back on an Orient boat as a passenger,
ref: 1918, Ralph Henry Barbour, Lost Island:
text: 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.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
examples: text: He was injured due to a trip down the stairs.
glosses: A stumble or misstep.
examples: text: Imperfect words, with childish trips.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
text: Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.
ref: 1767, Walter Harte, The amaranth; or, Religious poems:
synonyms: word: aberration
word: barbarism
word: bloomer
word: blooper
word: blunder
word: boner
word: boo-boo
word: break
word: clanger
word: cock-up
word: error
word: fault
word: faux pas
word: floater
word: flub
word: fluff
word: fuckup
word: gaffe
word: goof
word: howler
word: inaccuracy
word: lapse
word: lapsus
word: mess-up
word: misstep
word: mistake
word: oopsy
word: screwup
word: slip
word: slip-up
word: slipup
word: stumble
word: thinko
word: wrength
word: solecism
word: erroneity
glosses: An error; a failure; a mistake.
examples: text: He had a strange trip after taking LSD.
text: Unlike other accepted stimuli, from nicotine to liquor, the hallucinogens promise those who take the “trip” a magic-carpet escape from dull reality in which perceptions are heightened, sense distorted, and the imagination permanently bedazzled with ecstatic visions of teleological verity.
ref: 1967, Joe David Brown, editor, The Hippies, New York: Time, Inc, page 2:
text: We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee / We don't take our trips on LSD
ref: 1969, Merle Haggard, “Okie from Muskogee”:
glosses: A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
examples: text: ego trip
text: power trip
text: nostalgia trip
text: guilt trip
text: Many of them admit to having suppressed any tendency toward homosexual behavior for the greater part of their lives—yet—denial becomes too heavy a trip after a period of time, and eventually curiosity wins out.
ref: 1974 April 13, Heather Anderson, “Hustling”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
glosses: Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
glosses: A faux pas, a social error.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mechanical cutout device.
examples: text: It's dark because the trip operated.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A trip-switch or cut-out.
examples: text: His heart bounded as he sometimes could distinctly hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
examples: text: It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
ref: 1661 December 10, Robert South, False Foundations Removed […] :
text: And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Georgic II”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
Hyponyms: bad trip
boat trip
bum 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
Derived terms: businessman's trip
facility trip
foot trip
have a safe trip home
round-trip
trip cord
trip down memory lane
trip hammer
trip hop
trip meter
trip odometer
trippy
trip recorder
trip sill
trip sit
trip sitter
trip sitting
trip slip
trip switch
trip tic
trip to Jerusalem
trip to the woodshed
trip working