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Tripper   /trˈɪpər/   Listen
Tripper

noun
1.
(slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations.
2.
A walker or runner who trips and almost falls.  Synonym: stumbler.
3.
A tourist who is visiting sights of interest.  Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, sightseer.
4.
A catch mechanism that acts as a switch.  Synonym: trip.





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"Tripper" Quotes from Famous Books



... invariably with a pole, whether from cliff or dock or from a boat. Experience brings the desire for the hand line. The farmer's boy who comes down for the salt hay tucks his long birch pole into the bottom of the wagon and the trolley tripper comes to the beach with his split bamboo. Down in Maine years ago the pinkies used to sail equipped with numerous short poles whereby to trail for mackerel. In the day of your grandfather and mine it must have been a sight to see the crew of a pink-sterned chebacco boat dancing from ...
— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard
... Bertha had drawn courage, resolution, pride, and ambition from what she saw on this short ride. That she was in a car and mistress of it was in itself a marvellous distinction, and the thought of what she would have been—as a "round-tripper" from Sibley Junction—added to her pleasure and pride. She was always doing sums in her head now. Thus: "Suppose our excursion does cost twenty dollars per day; that's only one hundred and fifty per week, six hundred ...
— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... the hinged trapdoor is made heavier than the inner half B by a cleat, C, and a strip, D, to cause the door to swing shut. The tripper stick E is set between cleats C and F to hold the door open. When the dog steps on the inner half of the trapdoor B, it falls to stop G, releasing tripper stick E (which is heavier on the top end ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics
... he explained, owned to any quarrel with the alien invasion. Good for trade they were, that tripper lot, though wonnerful simple, he must say, when they came to talk, blessed with an almighty wide swallow for any long-eared fairy tale you liked to put on them. Mortal full of senseless questions, too, fit to make anybody laugh!—Whereat ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet


Words linked to "Tripper" :   footer, trip, stop, patois, holidaymaker, jargon, walker, user, lingo, cant, slang, vernacular, stumbler, sightseer, drug user, catch, tourer, pedestrian, argot, excursionist, rubberneck, substance abuser, tourist


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