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    trip
    [trip]
    verb
    trip (verb) · trips (third person present) · tripped (past tense) · tripped (past participle) · tripping (present participle) · trippin' (present participle) · trippin (present participle)
    1. catch one's foot on something and stumble or fall:
      "he tripped over his cat" · "she tripped up during the penultimate lap"
      • cause to stumble and fall:
        "she shot out her foot to trip him up"
      • (trip up)
        make a mistake:
        "taxpayers often trip up by not declaring taxable income"
      • (trip someone up)
        detect or expose someone in an error, blunder, or inconsistency:
        "the man was determined to trip him up on his economics"
    2. walk, run, or dance with quick light steps:
      "they tripped up the terrace steps"
      • (of words) flow lightly and easily:
        "a name that trips off the tongue" · "the guest list tripped from her lips"
    3. activate (a mechanism), especially by contact with a switch, catch, or other electrical device:
      "an intruder trips the alarm"
      • (of part of an electric circuit) disconnect automatically as a safety measure:
        "the plugs will trip as soon as any change in current is detected"
    4. nautical
      release and raise (an anchor) from the seabed by means of a buoyed line attached to the anchor's crown.
      • turn (a yard or other object) from a horizontal to a vertical position for lowering.
    5. informal
      experience hallucinations induced by taking a psychedelic drug, especially LSD:
      "they prance around tripping out on their hallucinogens"
      • NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
        (be tripping)
        be behaving in an irrational or delusional way:
        "you're tripping if you think I'm hanging around" · "I would like to know if I'm the one who's trippin' or if it's him"
    6. go on a short journey:
      "when tripping through the Yukon take some time to explore our museums"
    noun
    trip (noun) · trips (plural noun)
    1. an act of going to a place and returning; a journey or excursion, especially for pleasure:
      "Sally's gone on a school trip" · "a trip to the North Pole" · "a quick trip to the store"
    2. a stumble or fall due to catching one's foot on something:
      "trips and falls cause nearly half of all accidents"
      • archaic
        a mistake:
        "an occasional trip in the performance"
    3. informal
      a hallucinatory experience caused by taking a psychedelic drug, especially LSD:
      "acid trips"
      • an exciting or stimulating experience:
        "it was a trip seeing him again"
      • a self-indulgent attitude or activity:
        "politics was a sixties trip"
    4. a device that activates or disconnects a mechanism, circuit, etc.:
      "a trip mechanism"
    5. archaic
      a light, lively movement of a person's feet:
      "yonder comes Dalinda; I know her by her trip"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old French triper, from Middle Dutch trippen ‘to skip, hop’.
    trip
    [trip]
    noun
    rare
    trip (noun) · trips (plural noun)
    1. a flock or group of goats, sheep, or other animals:
      "she exchanged her cows for a trip of goats"
    2. a small flock of wildfowl:
      "a small trip of dotterel alighted on the cricket field"
    Origin
    Middle English: of unknown origin; perhaps related to troop.
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    verb
    1. catch one's foot on something and stumble or fall:
      lose one's footing
      catch one's foot
      lose one's balance
      take a spill
      measure one's length
    2. walk, run, or dance with quick light steps:
      Opposite:
      • activate (a mechanism), especially by contact with a switch, catch, or other electrical device:
        • go on a short journey:
         
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