trip

1. 1.

   miss a step and fall or nearly fall

   “She stumbled over the tree root”

   Synonymsstumble

   Broadermove

   Narrowerfounder
2. 2.

   cause to stumble

   “The questions on the test tripped him up”

   Synonymstrip up
3. 3.

   make a trip for pleasure

   Synonymstraveljaunt

   Narrowerjunketeertravel totravelplycommuteperegrinate
4. 4.

   put in motion or move to act

   “trigger a reaction”

   “actuate the circuits”

   Synonymsactuatetriggeractivateset offspark offsparktrigger offtouch off

   Broaderinitiate
5. 5.

   get high, stoned, or drugged

   “He trips every weekend”

   Synonymstrip outturn onget off

Other forms of trip

plural

trips·

past tense or participle

tripped

present participle

tripping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about trip

What does trip mean?

trip means "a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trip?

trip has 1 syllable: trip. In IPA it is /ˈtɹɪp/.

What is another word for trip?

Close synonyms include slip, head trip, tripper, trip-up, stumble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trip a common word?

trip is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.