Trip(n.) A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
Trip(n.) A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
Trip(n.) A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
Trip(n.) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
Trip(n.) A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.
Trip(n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
Trip(n.) A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc.
Trip(n.) A troop of men; a host.
Trip(n.) A flock of widgeons.
Trip(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, 5.
Trip(n. i.) To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
Trip(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.
Trip(n. i.) Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail.
Trip(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.
Trip(v. t.) Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
Trip(v. t.) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
Trip(v. t.) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
Trip(v. t.) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
Trip(v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent.
Tripped(imp. & p. p.) of Trip
Tripping(a.) Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
Tripping(a.) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.
Tripping(n.) Act of one who, or that which, trips.
Tripping(n.) A light dance.
Tripping(n.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.
Tripping(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trip
Trippingly(adv.) In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly.
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