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verb
- 1. catch one's foot on something and stumble or fall: "he tripped over his cat" Similar
- 2. walk, run, or dance with quick light steps: "they tripped up the terrace steps" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. an act of going to a place and returning; a journey or excursion, especially for pleasure: "Sally's gone on a school trip" Similar
- 2. a stumble or fall due to catching one's foot on something: "trips and falls cause nearly half of all accidents" Similar
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(Definition of tripped from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of tripped. tripped. He tripped onto his bike and broke a leg. From the Cambridge English Corpus. In the process, three of the classic triggers have been tripped, and others have palpably moved.
1. : to catch the foot against something so as to stumble. 2. : to make a mistake or false step (as in morality or accuracy) 3. a. : to dance, skip, or caper with light quick steps. b. : to walk with light quick steps. 4. : to stumble in articulation when speaking. 5. : to make a journey. 6. a. : to actuate a mechanism. b. : to become operative.
n. 1. A going from one place to another; a journey. 2. A stumble or fall. 3. A maneuver causing someone to stumble or fall. 4. A mistake. 5. Slang. a. A hallucinatory experience induced by a psychedelic drug: an acid trip. b. An intense, stimulating, or exciting experience: a power trip. 6. Slang. a.
From ABC News. She tripped over several people to get back to her purse. From Huffington Post. I tripped, and a college student offered me his hand. From The New Yorker. All of the first building's motion sensors were tripped at once; minutes later, all of the second building's sensors tripped too. From Fast Company.
The two occasions she tripped up tell you nothing about how often she got away with it. Hilton, John Buxton DISPLACED PERSON He tripped, fell back, his shoes scrabbling for purchase on the raw concrete floor of the balcony .
trip noun (EXPERIENCE) [ C ] slang. an experience in which someone sees, hears, or feels things that do not exist as a result of taking an illegal drug: have a bad trip If you take this stuff when you're depressed, you'll have a really bad trip. [ C usually singular ] mainly US informal.
[intransitive] to catch your foot on something and fall or almost fall. She tripped and fell. trip over/on something Someone will trip over that cable. I tripped over my own feet and fell down the stairs. (figurative) I was tripping over my words in my excitement to tell them the news.
