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word trip
definition
noun
A trip is a journey that you make to a particular place.
On the Thursday we went out on a day trip.
Mark was sent to the Far East on a business trip.
If you say that someone is, for example, on a power trip, a guilt trip, or a nostalgia trip, you mean that their behaviour is motivated by power, guilt, or nostalgia.
There's such pressure to be happy in Hawaii, if you're unhappy you're on a guilt trip.
The biggest star perk, and the biggest power trip, must be the private plane.
A trip is an experience that someone has when their mind is affected by a drug such as LSD.
An anxious or depressed person can experience a really bad trip.
verb
If you trip when you are walking, you knock your foot against something and fall or nearly fall.
She tripped and fell last night and broke her hip.
He tried to follow Jack's footsteps in the snow and tripped on a rock.
The cables are all bright yellow to prevent you tripping over them.
I tripped up and hurt my foot.
Make sure trailing flexes are kept out of the way so you don't trip up over them.
If you trip someone who is walking or running, you put your foot or something else in front of them, so that they knock their own foot against it and fall or nearly fall.
One guy stuck his foot out and tried to trip me.
He made a sudden dive for Uncle Jim's legs to try to trip him up.
He was tripped up by a passer-by.
If someone is tripping, they are having an experience in which their mind is affected by a drug such as LSD.
One night I was tripping on acid.
If someone trips somewhere, they walk there with light, quick steps.
A girl in a red smock tripped down the hill.
They tripped along with scarcely a care in the world.
inflections tripstrippingtrippedget highget stonedget loved-up
cefr-level B2

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