trip

trip is a 4-letter English word with 31 senses as noun i, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 31 senses

Definitions

1. noun i. To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.
2. noun i. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
3. noun i. To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.
4. noun i. Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail.
5. transitive verb. To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling.
6. transitive verb. Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
7. transitive verb. To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
8. transitive verb. To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
9. transitive verb. To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
10. transitive verb. To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent.
11. noun. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
12. noun. A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
13. noun. A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
14. noun. A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
15. noun. A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.
16. noun. A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
17. noun. A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc.
18. noun. A troop of men; a host.
19. noun. A flock of widgeons.
20. noun. an unintentional but embarrassing blunder

    "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"

    "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"

    Synonyms: misstep, stumble

21. noun. a light or nimble tread

    "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"

22. noun. a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)

    "he took a trip to the shopping center"

23. noun. a catch mechanism that acts as a switch

    "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water"

    Synonyms: tripper

24. noun. an exciting or stimulating experience
25. noun. an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall

    "he blamed his slip on the ice"

    "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills"

    Synonyms: slip

26. noun. a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs

    "an acid trip"

27. verb. get high, stoned, or drugged

    "He trips every weekend"

28. verb. put in motion or move to act

    "trigger a reaction"

    "actuate the circuits"

    Synonyms: activate, actuate, spark, trigger

29. verb. make a trip for pleasure

    Synonyms: jaunt, travel

30. verb. miss a step and fall or nearly fall

    "She stumbled over the tree root"

    Synonyms: stumble

31. verb. cause to stumble

    "The questions on the test tripped him up"

Synonyms

misstep, stumble, tripper, slip, activate, actuate, spark, trigger, jaunt, travel

Common word forms

trips, tripal, tripes, triply, tripped, tripper, tripping

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