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Definition of Trip

Trip To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe. To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble. Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail. To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling. Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail. To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict. To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it. To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip. A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt. A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake. A small piece; a morsel; a bit. A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing. A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward. A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. A troop of men; a host. A flock of widgeons. Related Definitions: Against, An, Anchor, Antagonist, As, Balance, Be, Beating, Bit, Board, Bottom, Brief, Buoy, By, Cable, Catch, Cause, Commit, Compressed, Convict, Danger, Depriving, Detect, Detent, Err, Error, Excursion, Fail, Failure, Fall, False, Feet, Fig, Flock, Followed, Foot, Footing, For, Free, From, Guilty, Hence, Herd, His, Host, In, Into, It, Jaunt, Journey, Latch, Let, Lightly, Lively, Lose, Losing, Loss, Lowering, Light, Make, Man, Men, Misstep, Mistake, Morality, Morsel, Move, Movement, Nimbly, Obstacle, Obstruct, Of, Off, Offense, Often, One, Or, Overthrow, Perpendicular, Piece, Pleasure, Plying, Position, Propriety, Pull, Put, Quick, Raise, Rapid, Release, Removing, Rope, Rule, See, Sheep, Single, Skip, Small, So, Sometimes, Spring, Step, Striking, Stroke, Stumble, Supplant, Support, Tack, Take, That, The, Throw, To, Trip, Troop, Under, Up, Walk, Way, Weight, When, Which, Windward, With, Wrestler, Wrestling, Yard

Trip Quotations Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to. Catherine Bell Tired, very tired, still have to take a long trip. Kaspar Hauser A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. John Steinbeck I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea. Dwight D. Eisenhower Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture. Noel Coward

Trip Translations trip in Afrikaans is reis trip in Danish is rejse trip in Dutch is tocht, toer, reis, trip trip in Finnish is matka trip in French is voyage, broncher, trajet trip in German is Abstecher, Trip {m}, Reise trip in Italian is escursione, tratto, incespicare trip in Norwegian is reise trip in Portuguese is desengate trip in Spanish is excursion, topetar, viaje

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