trip

/trip/

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He took a trip to the shopping center.

Definition

Noun:
- A journey or excursion, especially for pleasure: A trip is a journey to a place and back, often for a specific purpose or leisure.
- A stumble or fall caused by catching one's foot on something: A trip is an instance of losing one's balance due to hitting an obstacle with the foot.
- A mistake or error: A trip can refer to a slip or blunder, especially in speech or action.
- A light, quick step: A trip can describe a nimble, dancing movement of the feet.
- A stimulating or unusual experience, especially one induced by a drug: A trip is an experience characterized by altered perception, often from a psychedelic substance.
- A mechanical catch or release device: A trip is a mechanism that activates or releases something.
Verb:
- To stumble or cause to stumble: To trip means to catch one's foot on something and lose balance, or to cause someone else to do so.
- To make a journey: To trip means to go on a short journey or excursion.
- To activate or release a mechanism: To trip means to operate a switch or trigger.
- To experience the effects of a hallucinogenic drug: To trip means to undergo a psychedelic experience.
- To make a mistake, especially in speech: To trip means to err or falter.

Usage Examples

Noun:
- We are planning a weekend trip to the mountains.
- He had a nasty trip on the uneven pavement.
- The speaker made a slight trip during his presentation but continued smoothly.
- She walked with a graceful trip.
- He described his first acid trip.
- The safety mechanism has an automatic trip.
Verb:
- Be careful not to trip over that cable.
- The defender tried to trip the striker.
- They trip to the coast every summer.
- The overload will trip the circuit breaker.
- He used to trip on LSD in the 1960s.
- The complex question tripped up the candidate during the interview.

Advanced Usage

"a trip down memory lane": An occasion when you remember pleasant things that happened in the past.
- Looking at these old photos is a real trip down memory lane.
"to trip the light fantastic": (Humorous or literary) To dance.
- They spent the evening tripping the light fantastic at the ball.

Variants and Related Words

Tripper (noun): A person who is on a trip or excursion; a tourist. Also, a device that trips a mechanism.
- The coastal town was full of day trippers.
Tripwire (noun): A wire that is stretched close to the ground and activates a trap, alarm, or explosion when disturbed.
- The soldiers carefully avoided the tripwire.

Synonyms

Related Phrasal Verbs

Trip up: To cause someone to stumble or make a mistake; to catch someone in an error.
- The tricky wording in the contract tripped us up.
- The prosecutor tripped up the witness with a series of rapid questions.

Related Idioms

A guilt trip: An effort to make someone feel guilty.
- Don't lay a guilt trip on me for wanting a night out.
A power trip: An act or series of acts undertaken for the pleasure of using one's authority over others.
- The new manager is on a real power trip, micromanaging everything.

He took a trip to the shopping center.

Noun

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
a light or nimble tread
- he heard the trip of women's feet overhead
a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water
an exciting or stimulating experience
an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- he blamed his slip on the ice
- the jolt caused many slips and a few spills
a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
- an acid trip
a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
- he took a trip to the shopping center

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