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Grammar : Verb
Spell : trip
Phonetic Transcription : trɪp



Definition of trip up

Origin :
  • late 14c. (implied in tripper), "tread or step lightly, skip, caper," from Old French tripper "strike with the feet" (12c.), from a Germanic source (cf. Middle Dutch trippen "to skip, trip, hop," Low German trippeln, Frisian tripje, Dutch trappen, Old English treppan "to tread, trample") related to trap.
  • The sense of "strike with the foot and cause to stumble" is first recorded early 15c. Meaning "to release" (a catch, lever, etc.) is recorded from 1897; trip-wire is attested from 1916. Related: Tripped; tripping.
  • As in miss : verb fail, make a mistake
  • As in trap : verb catch, snare; trick
  • As in falter : verb stumble, stutter
  • As in flounder : verb struggle; be in the dark
Example sentences :
  • Probably some travellers had arrived from a trip up the country.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, July 6, 1880 » by Various
  • The men all laughed heartily, and tried to trip up the pursuer.
  • Extract from : « Blazed Trail Stories » by Stewart Edward White
  • Courtesy is just love in little things, but it is in the little things that we trip up.
  • Extract from : « The Calvary Road » by Roy Hession
  • The trip up the river in January is by no means a pleasure one.
  • Extract from : « With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia » by One of its Officer
  • I took a trip up to Oroya over the wonderful Meiggs railway.
  • Extract from : « Ranching, Sport and Travel » by Thomas Carson
  • We are planning a trip up the Maggiore to-morrow, and we have to have a cake to take with us.
  • Extract from : « Jerry » by Jean Webster
  • We are planning a trip up the Maggiore tomorrow, and we have to have a cake to take with us.
  • Extract from : « Jerry Junior » by Jean Webster
  • As a wind-up to the season they'd taken her on a yachtin' trip up the coast.
  • Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford
  • We must induce him to quit the chair of office, and take a trip up the river this spring.
  • Extract from : « Eventide » by Effie Afton
  • When I got to Jacksonville, I heard that you had gone on a trip up the river.
  • Extract from : « Down South » by Oliver Optic

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