## 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.

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