trip

A journey; an excursion or jaunt.

• beach trip, camping trip, fishing trip, school trip, shopping trip
• We make annual trips to the museum.

A journey; an excursion or jaunt.; A short outing for a specified purpose.

• He went on a trip to the drug store.

A journey; an excursion or jaunt.; A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.colloquial

• He had a strange trip after taking LSD.

An unusual or remarkable experience.

• I had a weird experience, it was quite the trip.

An unusual or remarkable experience.; Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.broadly

• ego trip
• power trip

An unusual or remarkable experience.; A lifestyle; a preoccupation.

• His whole celebrity trip made it hard to relate to him.
• He's on a health-food trip.

A stumble or misstep.

• He was injured due to a trip down the stairs.

A stumble or misstep.; The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing; a wrestling move in which an opponent is tripped.

• It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
• And watches with a trip his foe to foil.

A stumble or misstep.; A faux pas, a social error.

A stumble or misstep.; An error; a failure; a mistake.archaicfiguratively

• Imperfect words, with childish trips.
• Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.

To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's footintransitive

• Be careful not to trip on those tree roots. You tripped over the cat and fell downstairs just last week.

To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.sometimestransitive

• A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.

To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etcintransitive

• And the Pharasay / Then durst nothynge say, / But let the matter slyp, / And made truth to tryp;
• [T]ill his Tongue trips

To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.obsoletetransitive

• These her women can trip me if I err.

To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.transitive

• When we get into the factory, trip the lights.

To be activated, as by a signal or an eventintransitive

• The alarm system tripped, throwing everyone into a panic.

Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).

• From the evidence of witnesses and of the recorded passing times, including the time at which the circuit breakers were tripped when the wires were brought down, the train was travelling at a speed of not less than 70 m.p.h.
• The 25kV had repeatedly tripped and the two had split from a larger group to operate an overhead line isolating switch.

To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.intransitive

• After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.

To journey, to make a trip.intransitive

• Last summer, we tripped to the coast.

To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.datedintransitive

• Come, and trip it, as ye go, / On the light fantastic toe.
• She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.

Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).not-comparableslang

A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.ScotlandUKdialectal

A troop of men; a host.obsolete

A flock of wigeons.