OZDIC

trip

UK /tɹɪp/ US /tɹɪp/
noun 8verb 5adj 1

Definitions

noun

1

A journey; an excursion or jaunt.

We made a trip to the beach.

I sold my horse and took a trip to Ceylon and back on an Orient boat as a passenger,

2

A stumble or misstep.

He was injured due to a trip down the stairs.

3

An error; a failure; a mistake.

Imperfect words, with childish trips.

Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.

4

A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.

He had a strange trip after taking LSD.

Unlike other accepted stimuli, from nicotine to liquor, the hallucinogens promise those who take the “trip” a magic-carpet escape from dull reality in which perceptions are heightened, sense distorted, and the imagination permanently bedazzled with ecstatic visions of teleological verity.

5

Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.

ego trip

power trip

verb

1

To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot

Be careful not to trip on those tree roots. You tripped over the cat and fell downstairs just last week.

2

To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.

A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.

Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.

3

To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc

And the Pharasay / Then durst nothynge say, / But let the matter slyp, / And made truth to tryp;

[T]ill his Tongue trips

4

To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.

These her women can trip me if I err.

5

To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.

When we get into the factory, trip the lights.

adj

1

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

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