trip

Meaning

Noun

1. A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
2. A stumble or misstep.
3. An error; a failure; a mistake.
4. (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
5. Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
6. A faux pas, a social error.
7. A mechanical cutout device.
8. A trip-switch or cut-out.
9. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
10. (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
11. The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
12. A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.

Verb

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

Adj

Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹɪp/

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.