A catch mechanism that acts as a switch

Usage examples of tripper.

The Spences had timed their arrival in Rome so as to be able to spend a few days with certain friends, undisturbed by bell-clanging and the rush of trippers, before at length returning to England.

And to see nothing but trippers and dirty papers and bathing machines.

John the Night Tripper, Joan Baez, the Dead Man's Hand, Joker and the One-Eyed Jacks, Peyote Woman, the Heavenly Blues, the Golems, the Supreme Awakening, the Seven Types of Ambiguity, the Cold War, the Street Fighters, the Bank Burners, the Slaves of Satan, the Domino Theory, and Maxwell and His Demons.

But there is usually something to be seen from the road, enough, anyway, to be imagined from the very aspect of the building to send the trippers off to their teas with their consciences agreeably unquiet at the memory of small dishonesties in railway trains, inaccurate income tax returns, and the hundred and one minor infractions of law that are inevitable in civilized life.

Like when he had met the three other Trippers in Chapel Halls for the first time, for example.

Tasmin usually let his first trippers decide who sang what, so long as everyone took equal responsibility.

It was not even that she particularly resented having to spout all that pseudo-religious drivel about the Cascade that some Trippers wanted to hear, the old theosophy of Ushogbo that had served the Cardinals so well during the Great Dying.