trip

Meaning

Noun

1. A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
2. A stumble or misstep.
3. (archaic, figuratively) An error; a failure; a mistake.
4. (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
5. (broadly) 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. The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
11. A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).

Verb

1. (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
2. (sometimes, transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
3. (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
4. (obsolete, transitive) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
5. (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
6. (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
7. Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
8. (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
9. (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
10. (dated, intransitive) 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.
14. (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).

Synonyms

journey

stumble

voyage

travel

tour

excursion

outing

slip

misstep

fall

jaunt

hike

run

trip up

travelling

pilgrimage

ride

trip-up

tripper

stagger

set off

make a mistake

cruise

flight

✈️

head trip

trigger

walk

🚶

wayfaring

visit

catch on

turn on

cause to stumble

tripping

trigger off

actuate

trek

trip out

tumble

touch off

spark off

spark

route

ramble

march

hop

time

⌚

get off

drive

activate

peregrination

Translations

voyage

viaje

Reise

trébucher

viaggio

viagem

reis

ταξίδι

stolpern

tropezar

Ausflug

tocht

Fahrt

tropeçar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹɪp/

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch: trippelen

Cognate with Middle Low German: trippen

Cognate with Danish: trippe

Cognate with Swedish: trippa

Cognate with Western Frisian: tripje

Cognate with German: trippeln

Cognate with Old English: treppan

In summary

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.

Sentences

Unfortunately the trip never took place and the season was ended very quietly .