trip up

Questions about trip up

What does trip up mean?

trip up means "detect a blunder or misstep". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for trip up?

Close synonyms include catch, trip, stumble, slip up. 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 up a common word?

trip up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.