| Trip 1. (n. 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. 2. (n. i.) To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe. 3. (n. 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. (n. i.) Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail. 5. (v. t.) 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. (v. t.) Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail. 7. (v. t.) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict. 8. (v. t.) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. 9. (v. t.) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it. 10. (v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent. 11. (n.) A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip. 12. (n.) A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt. 13. (n.) A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake. 14. (n.) A small piece; a morsel; a bit. 15. (n.) A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing. 16. (n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward. 17. (n.) A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. 18. (n.) A troop of men; a host. 19. (n.) A flock of widgeons. Thesaurus Entries airlift, airy nothing, allure, amble, antic, apparition, army, atrocity, autism, backslide, bad job, bait the hook, balk, barge, be all thumbs, bevue, birdlime, blooper, blow down, blow over, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bob, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob, botch, bounce, bound, bowl along, bowl down, bowl over, brainchild, breach, bring down, bubble, bull, bulldog, bumble, bunch, bundle, bungle, butcher, campaign, canter, caper, capriole, capsize, caracole, careen, carry on, cast down, catch, catch out, cavort, chimera, chop down, circuit, clog, clump, clumsy performance, colony, come a cropper, commit a gaffe, course, crime, crime against humanity, cropper, cruise, culbute, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, cut down, cut up, dance, dash down, daydream, deadly sin, deception, deck, decoy, degenerate, delinquency, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dereliction, detonate, deviate, disconcert, disport, dive, down, drag, dream, dream of, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, drift, drive, drop, drove, eidolon, enmesh, enormity, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrap, enweb, err, erratum, error, etourderie, evil, excursion, expedition, explode, failure, fall, fall down, fall flat, fall headlong, fall into error, fall over, fall prostrate, false belief, false move, false step, falter, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fault, faux pas, fell, felony, fetch down, fiction, figment, flight, flock, floor, flop, flounce, flounder, flub, fluff, fool around, foot, footslog, foozle, forced landing, fox-trot, freak out, frisk, frolic, fumble, gallop, gam, gambado, gambol, gang, gaucherie, genocide, get, get a cropper, gin, git, globe-trot, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go wrong, grand tour, ground, guilty act, hallucinate, hallucination, halt, hash, header, heavy sin, herd, hew down, hightail, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hoof, hook, hook in, hop, hop along, horse around, host, hotfoot, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, impropriety, inadvertence, inadvertency, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, insubstantial image, inveigle, invention, jaunt, jog, jolt, journey, jump, jump about, junket, kennel, knock down, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, lay level, lay low, lay out, leap, level, lime, limp, list, litter, loose thread, lope, lumber, lunge, lurch, lure, maggot, make tracks, make-believe |