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- [trip]
- /trɪp/
- /trɪp/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [trip]
- /trɪp/
Definitions of trip word
- noun trip a group of animals, as sheep, goats, or fowl; flock. 1
- verb without object trip to stumble: to trip over a child's toy. 1
- verb without object trip to make a slip, error, or mistake, as in conversation or conduct. 1
- verb without object trip to step lightly or nimbly; skip; dance. 1
- verb without object trip to go with a light, quick step or tread: She tripped gaily across the room. 1
- verb without object trip to make a journey or excursion. 1
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Origin of trip
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; 1960-65 for def 12; Middle English trippen to step lightly < Old French trip(p)er < Middle Dutch; compare early Dutch trippen, Dutch trippelen (frequentative with -el), akin to Old English treppan to tread
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Parts of speech for Trip
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
trip popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
trip usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for trip
noun trip
- acid trip — a psychedelic experience induced by ingesting the hallucinogen LSD.
- action — Action is doing something for a particular purpose.
- activity — Activity is a situation in which a lot of things are happening or being done.
- adventure — If someone has an adventure, they become involved in an unusual, exciting, and rather dangerous journey or series of events.
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
verb trip
- barged — a capacious, flat-bottomed vessel, usually intended to be pushed or towed, for transporting freight or passengers; lighter.
- blow one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- breeze — A breeze is a gentle wind.
- buck — A buck is a US or Australian dollar.
adj trip
- consciousness-expanding — mind-expanding.
- hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
- mind-bending — mind-blowing.
- mind-expanding — heightening perceptions in a hallucinatory way: mind-expanding drugs.
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