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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

... Ward Billingsley wus thar at the house tryin' to get 'er to run off with him, an' that Marthy come as nigh as pease a-doin' of it. Her maw said she'd a-gone as shore as preachin' ef she'd a-had a dress fitten to take the trip on the train in. I reckon it wus every word the truth, fer to this day Marthy won't deny it; but it don't make a bit of difference to me now. Marthy would a-done as well by Ward as she did by me, I reckon. When women once git married they come down to hard-pan like a kickin' mule when it gits broke ...

— Westerfelt • Will N. Harben

... enthusiasm, Ardan held a great meeting, triumphantly carried his point, reconciled Barbican to his mortal foe, a certain Captain M'Nicholl, and even, by way of clinching the reconciliation, induced both the newly made friends to join him in his contemplated trip to ...

— All Around the Moon • Jules Verne

... a brief trip to Versailles, which has been transformed into an arsenal and a vast supply depot for food and forage. Troops of the military commissariat train are cantoned in the parks and shooting preserves of Prince Murat and of Mr. ...

— Paris War Days - Diary of an American • Charles Inman Barnard

... fear. He shoots and fishes and takes long walks with the dogs; he was out twice in your sloop this week. I think he and your mother and the girls plan a trip ...

— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne

... whilst he was concerned in the Turkey trade, had been three or four different times in the Levant, in one of which he had stayed a whole year and an half at Zant, my uncle Toby naturally concluded, that, in some one of these periods, he had taken a trip across the Archipelago into Asia; and that all this sailing affair with Aegina behind, and Megara before, and Pyraeus on the right hand, &c. &c. was nothing more than the true course of my father's voyage and reflections.—'Twas certainly ...

— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne

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