What is "trip"

Trip \Trip\, n.

1. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.

   His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.
   --Sir W. Scott.

2. A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.

   I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
   --Pope.

3. A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.

   Imperfect words, with childish trips.
   --Milton.

   Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.
   --Harte.

4. A small piece; a morsel; a bit. [Obs.] ``A trip of cheese.''
   --Chaucer.

5. A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.

   And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
   --Dryden.

   It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
   --South.

6. (Naut.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.

7. A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scott.]

8. A troop of men; a host. [Obs.]
   --Robert of Brunne.

9. (Zo["o]l.) A flock of widgeons.

Trip \Trip\ (tr[i^]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tripped (tr[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Tripping.] [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See Tramp.]

1. To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.

   This horse anon began to trip and dance.
   --Chaucer.

   Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe.
   --Milton.

   She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight.
   --Dryden.

2. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.

3. To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false step; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.

4. Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail. ``Till his tongue trip.''
   --Locke.

   A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
   --South.

   Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure.
   --Dryden.

   What? dost thou verily trip upon a word?
   --R. Browning.

Trip \Trip\, v. t.

1. To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling.

   The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of his cause.
   --Abp. Bramhall.

2. (Fig.): To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.

   To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword.
   --Shak.

3. To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict; also called trip up. [R.]

   These her women can trip me if I err.
   --Shak.

4. (Naut.)

   1. To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.

   2. To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.

5. (Mach.) To release, let fall, or set free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent; to activate by moving a release mechanism, often unintentionally; as, to trip an alarm.

late 14c., "tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance, caper," from Old French triper "jump around, dance around, strike with the feet" (12c.), from a Germanic source (compare Middle Dutch trippen "to skip, trip, hop; to stamp, trample," Low German trippeln, Frisian tripje, Dutch trappen, Old English treppan "to tread, trample") related to trap (n.).\n

\nThe senses of "to stumble" (intransitive), "strike with the foot and cause to stumble" (transitive) are from mid-15c. in English. Meaning "to release" (a catch, lever, etc.) is recorded from 1897; trip-wire is attested from 1868. Related: Tripped; tripping.

"act or action of tripping" (transitive), early 14c., from trip (v.); sense of "a short journey or voyage" is from mid-15c.; the exact connection to the earlier sense is uncertain. The meaning "psychedelic drug experience" is first recorded 1959 as a noun; the verb in this sense is from 1966, from the noun.

1. (context poker slang English) Of or relating to trips#Noun. n. A journey; an excursion or jaunt. v

2. 1 (context intransitive English) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot. 2 (context transitive sometimes followed by "up" English) To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble. 3 (context intransitive English) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, et

3. 4 (context transitive obsolete English) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict. 5 (context transitive English) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch. 6 (context intransitive English) To be activated, as by a signal or an event. 7 (context intransitive English) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consume psychoactive drugs. 8 (context intransitive English) To journey, to make a trip. 9 (context intransitive dated English) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip. 10 (context nautical English) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. 11 (context nautical English) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.

1. n. 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]

8. [also: tripping, tripped]

1. v. 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]

3. make a trip for pleasure [syn: travel, jaunt]

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]

6. [also: tripping, tripped]

Trip may refer to:

Trip is a Finnish brand of juice produced and distributed by Marli. Launched in 1962, Trip was the first beverage in Finland to be sold in a laminated carton. Originally Trip cartons were pyramid shaped, but were changed to a cuboid shape in the 1990s and were made higher and more narrow in 2002 to better fit children hands. Trip is usually drunk using the straw attached to its packaging.

"Trip" is a pop punk song recorded by Canadian band Hedley and appears on their debut album Hedley (2005). The single topped the Canadian MuchMusic Countdown and reached number eleven on the Canadian Singles Chart. It sold close to 3,000 copies. Trip appears on the US version of Famous Last Words, which is called Never Too Late.

Trip is the second album from the synthpop act Cause and Effect. It is dedicated to the memory of Sean Rowley. The album includes the song "It's Over Now," which climbed to the #7 spot on Billboard's modern rock charts. It was released in 1994 under the BMG label.

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