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      trip
      noun
      A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
      A stumble or misstep.
      (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
      (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
      A faux pas, a social error.
      (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
      (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
      A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
      The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
      (nautical) A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
      A flock of wigeons.
      (figurative, archaic) An error; a failure; a mistake.
      (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
      (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
      verb
      (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
      (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
      (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
      (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
      (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
      Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
      (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
      (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
      (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
      (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
      (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
      (slang, African-American Vernacular) To act foolishly or irrationally.
      (intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
      (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
      adjective
      (poker slang) Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).
      Synonyms for trip
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      Words related to trip
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