trip

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US /tɹɪp/ UK /tɹɪp/ See IPA manual

Freq #906

Meanings

1

noun
A journey to a place, often for a short time and a particular purpose.

We took a trip to the beach last weekend.
2

verb
To catch your foot on something and lose your balance, or to make someone do so.

She tripped over a loose paving stone.
3

noun
An experience caused by taking hallucinogenic drugs.

He described the experience as a bad trip.

Verb forms

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Synonyms

2 verb · to catch your foot on... trip up

Word family

Forms trippedtrippingtrips

Derived forms atripround-triptripcocktrippertrippytripwire

Related forms tray-trip

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Phrases (7)

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day trip
a leisure excursion to a place and back within a single day

Adjective + noun
book a trip
to reserve transport and accommodation for a journey

Verb + noun
plan a trip
to organise and prepare the details of a journey in advance

Verb + noun
take a trip
to go on a journey or excursion, usually for a short period

Verb + noun
business trip
a journey made for work-related purposes

Adjective + noun
round trip
a journey to a destination and back to the starting point

Adjective + noun

Proverbs (1)

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Haste trips up its own heels

Simplified etymology

Trip comes from early Dutch trippen, “to skip” or “hop.” In English it first referred to stumbling as well as dancing or nimble movement; the noun developed from “a light, lively movement” to “a short journey” in the late 17th century, initially in sailors’ usage. The drug-related sense “hallucinatory experience” appeared in the late 1950s.

Etymology

From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.

trippen Middle Dutch triper Old French

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# trip

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /tɹɪp/
**IPA (UK):** /tɹɪp/
**Frequency rank:** 906

## Meanings
1. A journey to a place, often for a short time and a particular purpose.
2. To catch your foot on something and lose your balance, or to make someone do so.
3. An experience caused by taking hallucinogenic drugs.

## Examples
- We took a trip to the beach last weekend.
- She tripped over a loose paving stone.
- He described the experience as a bad trip.

## Derived Forms
- atrip
- round-trip
- tripcock
- tripper
- trippy
- tripwire

## Related Forms
- tray-trip

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: trippen
- Root: triper

## Etymology
From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.

## AI Etymology
Trip is from Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.

## Topics
- Travel

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