tripper

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈtrɪpɚ/ UK /ˈtrɪpə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

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noun
a person who goes on a trip or excursion, especially a tourist

Day trippers crowded the seaside promenade every summer weekend.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who goes on a trip... tourist excursionist travellersightseerholidaymaker

Word family

Related forms trip tripping

Etymology

From trip (from Old French triper, tripper 'to strike with the feet, dance', of Germanic origin) + the agentive suffix -er.

tripper Old French

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Topics

People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# tripper

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈtrɪpɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈtrɪpə/

## Meanings
1. a person who goes on a trip or excursion, especially a tourist

## Examples
- Day trippers crowded the seaside promenade every summer weekend.

## Synonyms
- tourist
- excursionist
- traveller
- sightseer
- holidaymaker

## Related Forms
- trip
- tripping

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: tripper

## Etymology
From trip (from Old French triper, tripper 'to strike with the feet, dance', of Germanic origin) + the agentive suffix -er.

## AI Etymology
Tripper is from trip (from Old French triper, tripper 'to strike with the feet, dance', of Germanic origin) + the agentive suffix -er. Important recorded forms include tripper (Old French). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense continues the older lexical line without requiring a separate origin. In current use it covers a person who goes on a trip or excursion, especially a tourist. The wider family includes related words such as trip and tripping.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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