Dictionary Definition
trip
Noun
1 a journey for some purpose (usually including
the return); "he took a trip to the shopping center"
2 a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs;
"an acid trip"
3 an accidental misstep threatening (or causing)
a fall; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many
slips and a few spills" [syn: slip]
4 an exciting or stimulting experience [syn:
head
trip]
5 a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the
pressure activates the tripper and releases the water" [syn:
tripper]
6 a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of
women's feet overhead"
7 an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he
recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his
robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate
misstep" [syn: trip-up, stumble, misstep]
Verb
1 miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She
stumbled over the tree root" [syn: stumble]
2 cause to stumble; "The questions on the test
tripped him up" [syn: trip up]
4 put in motion or move to act; "trigger a
reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off,
spark, trigger off,
touch
off]
5 get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every
weekend" [syn: trip out,
turn on,
get off]
[also: tripping,
tripped]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Trip
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪp
Etymology
From tripper (noun is from the verb).Noun
Translations
a journey
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 旅行 (lǚxíng)
- Czech: výlet
- Dutch: tocht
- Finnish: matka, reissu, retki
- French: voyage
- German: Reise
- Greek: ταξίδι (taksíði)
- Hungarian: kirándulás, utazás
- Italian: viaggio
- Japanese: 旅行 (りょこう, ryokō)
- Korean: 여행 (yeohaeng)
- Polish: podróż
- Portuguese: viagem
- Romanian: excursie , voiaj
- Russian: поездка (pojézdka)
- Spanish: viaje
- Swedish: resa
a stumble
- Finnish: kompastuminen, kompastus
- Polish: potknięcie
period of experiencing drug-induced
hallucinations
- Finnish: trippi, huumetrippi
- German: Trip , Drogenrausch
a faux pas, a social error
- Finnish: huumetrippi
Verb
- to fall over or stumble over something with your feet.
- to cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble, by placing an object (usually a part of the body) in the path of their feet or legs. Commonly followed postpositionally by up.
- to activate or set in motion. (This usage is usually associated with the activation of a trap or explosive device. See tripwire.)
- to use drugs that induce hallucinations, particularly LSD
Translations
to fall over or stumble over something with your
feet
- Dutch: struikelen
- Finnish: kompastua
- German: stolpern
- Spanish: tropezar
to activate or set in motion
- Finnish: laukaista
to use drugs that induce hallucinations
- ttbc Italian: inciampare
Extensive Definition
Trip may refer to:
- Trip (drink), Finnish brand of juice.
- "Trip" (song), a song by Hedley
- Trip (Power Rangers), the Green Time Force Ranger on Time Force Power Rangers
- TRIPs Agreement, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
- The Trip (1967 film), Roger Corman-directed film starring Peter Fonda and written by Jack Nicholson
- "The Trip" (song), a 1966 song by Donovan
- The Trip (computer game) 1983 computer game by Jacques Bourgeois
- The Trip (2002 film)
- The Trip (2007 film) ()
- The Trip (TV series), a Channel 4 show
- The Trip (Seinfeld episode), a two-part episodes of Seinfeld
- The Trip (band), Italian progressive rock band of the 1970s
- Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem, a pub in Nottingham, England
- Trip (album), an album by American band Cause and Effect
- Trip (Rivermaya album), an album by Filipino band Rivermaya
- TRIP Linhas Aéreas, a Brazilian airline
- The Trip, a 1976 jazz album (and tune) by saxophonist Art Pepper
Trip may also be:
- Travel
- Vacation
- Psychedelic experience
- A nickname (also spelled Tripp) for a person who is the third consecutive generation to bare a particular name in his immediate family, who therefore carries a "III" or "3rd" after his name.
- the contraction (grammar) of tripcode
People with the given name Trip
- Trip Hawkins, co-founder of Electronic Arts
- Tripp Isenhour, American professional golfer
Fictional
- Trip Tucker aka Charles Tucker III, a character in the television series Enterprise
- Trip Fontaine, a character in The Virgin Suicides
See also
trip in German: Ausflug
trip in Esperanto: Ekskurso (promeno)
trip in French: Trip
trip in Dutch: Trip
trip in Portuguese: Trip
trip in Simple English: Trip
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
airlift, airy nothing, allure, amble, antic, apparition, army, atrocity, autism, backslide, bad job, bait the
hook, balk, barge, be all thumbs, bevue, birdlime, blooper, blow down, blow over,
blunder, blunder away,
blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bob, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob, botch, bounce, bound, bowl along, bowl down, bowl
over, brainchild,
breach, bring down,
bubble, bull, bulldog, bumble, bunch, bundle, bungle, butcher, campaign, canter, caper, capriole, capsize, caracole, careen, carry on, cast down,
catch, catch out, cavort, chimera, chop down, circuit, clog, clump, clumsy performance,
colony, come a cropper,
commit a gaffe, course,
crime, crime against
humanity, cropper,
cruise, culbute, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers,
cut down, cut up, dance,
dash down, daydream,
deadly sin, deception,
deck, decoy, degenerate, delinquency, delirium, deluded belief,
delusion, dereism, dereliction, detonate, deviate, disconcert, disport, dive, down, drag, dream, dream of, dream vision,
dreamland, dreamworld, drift, drive, drop, drove, eidolon, enmesh, enormity, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrap, enweb, err, erratum, error, etourderie, evil, excursion, expedition, explode, failure, fall, fall down, fall flat, fall
headlong, fall into error, fall over, fall prostrate, false belief,
false move, false step, falter, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fault, faux pas, fell, felony, fetch down, fiction, figment, flight, flock, floor, flop, flounce, flounder, flub, fluff, fool around, foot, footslog, foozle, forced landing, fox-trot,
freak out, frisk, frolic, fumble, gallop, gam, gambado, gambol, gang, gaucherie, genocide, get, get a cropper, gin, git, globe-trot, go amiss, go
astray, go awry, go wrong, grand tour, ground, guilty act, hallucinate, hallucination, halt, hash, header, heavy sin, herd, hew down, hightail, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hoof, hook, hook in, hop, hop along, horse around,
host, hotfoot, idle fancy, ignis
fatuus, illusion,
imagery, imagination, imagining, impropriety, inadvertence, inadvertency, indiscretion, inexpiable
sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, insubstantial
image, inveigle,
invention, jaunt, jog, jolt, journey, jump, jump about, junket, kennel, knock down, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus
linguae, lay level, lay low, lay out, leap, level, lime, limp, list, litter, loose thread, lope, lumber, lunge, lurch, lure, maggot, make tracks,
make-believe, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, mar, mesh, mess, mince, minor wrong, misbelief, miscalculate, misconception, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misstep, mistake, mortal sin, mow down,
muddle, muff, murder, myth, net, nonfeasance, noose, off day, offense, omission, operate, outing, outrage, overcome, overmaster, overmatch, overpower, overset, oversight, overthrow, overturn, pace, pack, package tour, paddle, peccadillo, peccancy, peg, peregrination, peregrinations, phantasm, phantom, piaffe, piaffer, pilgrimage, pipe dream,
pipe-dream, pitch,
play, play havoc with,
pleasure trip, plod,
plunge, pod, prance, pratfall, precipitate, pride, progress, prostrate, pull down, rack, ramp, rap, rase, raze, release, roll, rollick, romance, romp, round trip, rubberneck tour,
run, sad work, safari, sally, sashay, saunter, school, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, self-deceit,
self-deception, self-delusion, send flying, send headlong, set off,
shake, shamble, shimmy, shoal, shoot, shuffle, sick fancy, sidle, silence, sin, sin of commission, sin of
omission, sinful act, single-foot, skip, skitter, skulk, slink, slip, slip up, slipup, slither, slog, sloth, slouch, snare, snarl, sniggle, solo, spill, spoil, sport, sprawl, spread the toils,
spread-eagle, spring,
sprint, stagger, stalk, stamp, step, step along, step lively,
stomp, straddle, straggle, stray, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, supinate, surmount, swagger, swing, take a fall, take a flop,
take a header, take a pratfall, take a spill, take down, tangle, tap-dance, test flight,
thick-coming fancies, throw, throw down, throw off,
tilt, tittup, toddle, topple, topple down, topple over,
tort, totter, tour, traipse, transgression, trap, travel, travels, trek, trespass, trick, trigger, trip up, troop, trot, trudge, tumble, turn, turn on, turn turtle,
unsettle, unutterable
sin, upset, vapor, venial sin, vision, visit, voyage, waddle, waltz, wamble, wander, whack down, whim, whimsy, wiggle, wildest dreams, wind, wobble, wrong, wrong impression, wrong
step