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1. A journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
   "he took a trip to the shopping centre"
    
2. A hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
   "an acid trip"
    
3. An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
   "he blamed his trip on the ice";
   - slip
    
4. An exciting or stimulating experience
   - head trip
    
5. A catch mechanism that acts as a switch
   "the pressure activates the trip and releases the water";
   - tripper
    
6. A light or nimble tread
   "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"
    
7. An unintentional but embarrassing blunder
   "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later";
   - trip-up, stumble, misstep

1. Miss a step and fall or nearly fall
   "She tripped over the tree root";
   - stumble
    
2. Cause to stumble
   "The questions on the test tripped him up";
   - trip up
    
3. Make a trip for pleasure
   - travel, jaunt
    
4. Get high, stoned, or drugged
   "He trips every weekend";
   - trip out, turn on [informal], get off [informal]
    
5. Turn electric power off (using a switch or as a safety measure)

Derived forms: tripping, trips, tripped

Type of: bloomer [informal], blooper [N. Amer, informal], blue [Austral, NZ, informal], blunder, boner [N. Amer, informal], boob [Brit, informal], boo-boo [informal], botch, bungle, catch, experience, flub [N. Amer, informal], foul-up, goof [informal], hallucination, journey, journeying, misadventure, mischance, mishap, move, pratfall [informal], step, stop

Encyclopedia: Trip, reactor