How to pronounce “trip”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
• A stumble or misstep.
• (figurative, archaic) An error; a failure; a mistake.
• (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
• (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
• A faux pas, a social error.
• (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
• (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
• A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
• The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
• (nautical) A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).[1]
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
• (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
• (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
• (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
• (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
• (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
• Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
• (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
• (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
• (intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
• (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
• (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
• (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
• [Adjective]
• (poker slang) Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).

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