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Trip

noun

1.

A journey for some purpose (usually including the return).

2.

A hallucinatory experience induced by drugs.

3.

An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall. Synonym: slip. "The jolt caused many slips and a few spills"

4.

An exciting or stimulating experience. Synonym: head trip.

5.

A catch mechanism that acts as a switch. Synonym: tripper.

6.

A light or nimble tread.

7.

An unintentional but embarrassing blunder. Synonyms: misstep, stumble, trip-up. "He arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later" , "Confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"

verb

(past & past part. tripped; pres. part. tripping)

1.

Miss a step and fall or nearly fall. Synonym: stumble.

2.

Cause to stumble. Synonym: trip up.

3.

Make a trip for pleasure. Synonyms: jaunt, travel.

4.

Put in motion or move to act. Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off. "Actuate the circuits"

5.

Get high, stoned, or drugged. Synonyms: get off, trip out, turn on.

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"Trip" Quotes from Famous Books

... Among others was a young lady, a countrywoman of my own —you know whom I mean—who interested me very much, and before her family left London she and I were engaged. We parted there for the time, because she had the Continental trip still to make, while I wanted to take the opportunity to visit the north of England and Ireland. I landed at Dublin about the 1st of October, and, zigzagging about the country, I found myself in County ...

— David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales • Julian Hawthorne

... long letter, and seemed to be written in a more cheerful mood than usual. There was a charming description of a trip they had taken, with little graceful touches of humour ...

— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... months had covered the bay was floating in broken pieces on the surface, through which the boat struggled with so much difficulty that I feared it would be necessary to put back to the island; but the trip was made at the expense of some broken paddles. Why we were selected rather than our less fortunate compatriots I cannot guess, unless it was to save the annoyance and the expense of burial, for some of our party had been wounded, others as well as myself, had recently recovered ...

— Reminiscences of a Rebel • Wayland Fuller Dunaway

... Eugenia drove Sally in to town, and stopped on her outward trip to pay a visit to Mrs. Webb. She found that lady serenely seated in her drawing-room, as unruffled as if she had not just dismissed a cook ...

— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow

... the dinner-table we had to drink wine—suddenly, to drink wine! Wine! For years and years the city-water in decanters has been our only table drink ... absolutely the only one. Dear children, said my husband.—You know that he had just returned from an eleven or twelve day trip to Alsace. Let us drink, my husband said, the health of my good and faithful Mrs. John, because ... he cried out in his beautiful voice ... because she is a visible proof of the fact that the cry of a mother heart is not indifferent to our Lord.—And so we drank your health, clinking ...

— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann

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