trip

trip · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    (noun) A journey or excursion, especially for pleasure.

  2. 2.

    (noun) An act of stumbling or falling.

  3. 3.

    (verb) To catch one's foot on something and stumble or fall.

  4. 4.

    (verb) To activate a mechanism.

  5. 5.

    (noun, informal) A hallucinatory experience caused by drugs.

Forms

plural: trips

Related words

See also: excursion, journey, travel
Synonyms: excursion, journey, outing, voyage

Etymology

From Old French "treper" meaning "to strike with the feet, to dance, to hop," possibly of Germanic origin. The sense of a journey developed from the idea of stepping or walking, while the sense of stumbling developed from the notion of making a misstep.