Meanings
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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.
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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.
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3
noun
An experience caused by taking hallucinogenic drugs.
He described the experience as a bad trip.
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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.
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