Crossword clues for tripped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
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.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: trip)
WordNet
n. a journey for some purpose (usually including the return); "he took a trip to the shopping center"
a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs; "an acid trip"
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]
an exciting or stimulting experience [syn: head trip]
a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water" [syn: tripper]
a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"
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]
v. miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root" [syn: stumble]
cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up" [syn: trip up]
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]
get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend" [syn: trip out, turn on, get off]
See trip
Usage examples of "tripped".
When the inner beacon, unanswered, tripped the relays that set every light in the control rooms blinking in disorienting random patterns, his first thought was that he'd simply missed the outer beacon signal.
The generators, suddenly freed of their load, whirled up to over speed and circuit breakers tripped them out.
The in dignant doorman was tripped by a frantic cocker, who plunged at him from the lobby.
He might have sliced her arm off, but he tripped over the carton, giving her a head start as she raced back to his sled, stumbled into it, and hit the replay button before she slid the door closed.
Madame Flaubert whirled back to him, took a step, and tottered as her lapdog tripped her neatly.
She all but tripped over him as the wind puffed black smoke down among the rocks.
And don't comfort me with how many happy clods have obediently tripped up to the Clinic to have they minor Talents identified.
She forced her way through the press of beings to a little girl who had tripped and fallen, and was unable to get up again.
The ship seemed to lurch, as if it had tripped over something, and the lights dimmed.
I lost speed going around it and then tripped over packs that were waiting to be loaded on another cart.
An attendant, too eager to finish his assignment, tripped over the leads to a fluid tank in the now-crowded cargo hold.
Halfway there, she tripped, as usual, and went flying through the air, crashing into the table and spilling the hot coffee all over her arms and legs.
Your big thug tripped over his own feet—with a little help—and slapped himself with the stimpad he was aiming at me.
With a yelp, he tripped forward, painfully bruising his palms and knees.
And don't comfort me with how many happy clods have obediently tripped up to the Clinic to have their minor Talents identified.