noun
- A journey for some purpose (usually including the return. )
- usage: "he took a trip to the shopping center"
- A hallucinatory experience induced by drugs.
- usage: "an acid trip"
- An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall.
- usage: "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills"
- synonyms: slip
- An exciting or stimulating experience.
- synonyms: head trip
- A catch mechanism that acts as a switch.
- usage: "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water"
- synonyms: tripper
- A light or nimble tread.
- usage: "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"
- An unintentional but embarrassing blunder.
- usage: "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
verb
- Miss a step and fall or nearly fall.
- usage: "She stumbled over the tree root"
- synonyms: stumble
- Cause to stumble.
- usage: "The questions on the test tripped him up"
- synonyms: trip up
- Make a trip for pleasure.
- Put in motion or move to act.
- usage: "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
- Get high, stoned, or drugged.
- usage: "He trips every weekend"
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