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triptrip1 /trɪp/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countable] 1an occasion when you travel from one place to another: How was your trip?trip to Let’s take a trip to Mexico. They’re going on a trip to Canada this summer. He was unable to make the trip to accept the award.on a trip He’s away on a business trip to Japan.2an occasion when you walk or drive somewhere, for a particular purpose: trip to Do you want to come on a quick trip to the grocery store? We had to make three trips to get everything in the house.3[usually singular] informal a person or experience that is amusing and very different from normal: You’re a trip.4slang the experiences someone has while his or her mind is affected by a drug such as LSD: He had a really bad trip.5an act of falling as a result of hitting something with your foot → see also a guilt trip at guilt1 (1), round tripCOLLOCATIONSverbsgo on a trip They’re going on a trip to Boston.take a trip We decided to take a trip on the Santa Fe railway.make a trip He had to make the long trip to Minneapolis alone.book a trip She’s booked another trip to Florida.cancel a trip He had to cancel the trip because his mother got sick.postpone a trip (=decide to make it at a later date) Bad weather forced us to postpone our trip.plan a trip (=intend to make one) We’re planning a trip to see our friends in Germany.adjectives/nouns + tripa business trip She’s away on a business trip.a long trip It’s going to be a long trip, so we should get an early start.a short/quick trip I’m going away on a short trip home next week.a camping/fishing/skiing etc. trip He was exhausted after an all-day shopping trip.a field trip (=when children and teachers go on a short trip during the school day) We’re going on a field trip to the local TV station.a school trip (=when children and teachers from a school go somewhere) My daughter went on a school trip to Washington, D.C.a day trip (=when you go somewhere for pleasure and come back the same day) Catalina Island is close enough to Los Angeles to visit as a day trip.a round trip (=to a place and back again) She makes a 150-mile round trip to see her mother every week.the return trip (=back to a place) Two days later she began her return trip to Chicago.a road trip (=a long trip by car, truck, or RV) We’re going on a road trip to Las Vegas.a bus/boat/car trip They took a boat trip to see the seals.a wasted trip (=a trip in which you do not achieve what you wanted to) I had a wasted trip because they didn’t have the shoes in my size. noun | verb
triptrip2 ●●○ S3 verb (tripped, tripping) 1
FALL [intransitive] to hit something with your foot while you are walking or running so that you fall or almost fall: She tripped and hurt her knee.trip over/on He almost tripped over the dog.► see thesaurus at fall12MAKE somebody FALL [transitive] to make someone fall by putting your foot in front of him or her when he or she is moving: She put her foot out to trip him as he passed.3TURN ON to accidentally turn on a piece of electrical equipment: An intruder had tripped the alarm.4WALK/DANCE [intransitive always + adv./prep.] literary to walk or run with quick light steps as if you are dancing: trip along/over/down etc. She watched her two kids tripping down the sidewalk.5DRUG [intransitive] slang to experience the effects of an illegal drug such as LSD SYN trip out6be tripping over yourself to do something (also be tripping over each other to do something) informal to be very eager to do something, especially when this seems very surprising: Suddenly everyone was tripping over each other to praise her.7somebody is tripping slang used to say that you think someone is not thinking clearly or being reasonable: Ken’s tripping if he thinks I’m going to lend him $500.8be tripping on somebody/something slang to enjoy thinking about how unusual or good someone or something is9trip the light fantastic old-fashioned to dance[Origin: 1300–1400 Old French triper] → see also roll/trip off somebody’s tongue at tongue1 (6), whatever trips your trigger at whatever1 (8)trip out phrasal verb slang1 to experience the effects of an illegal drug such as LSD SYN trip2 trip (somebody ↔) out slang if you trip out or someone or something trips you out, you are surprised by how unusual something istrip up phrasal verb trip somebody ↔ up to trick someone into making a mistake: The questions are designed to trip you up.