“tripped” is a form of
trip
/tɹɪp/ noun, verb, adjective
Forms trips tripping tripped
- noun A journey; an excursion or jaunt. “beach trip, camping trip, fishing trip, school trip, shopping trip”
- noun A short outing for a specified purpose. “He went on a trip to the drug store.”
- noun (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations. “He had a strange trip after taking LSD.”
- noun An unusual or remarkable experience. “I had a weird experience, it was quite the trip.”
- noun (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition. “ego trip”
- noun A lifestyle; a preoccupation. “His whole celebrity trip made it hard to relate to him.”
- noun A stumble or misstep. “He was injured due to a trip down the stairs.”
- noun (wrestling) The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing; a wrestling move in which an opponent is tripped.
- verb (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot “Be careful not to trip on those tree roots. You tripped over the cat and fell downstairs just last week.”
- verb (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them. “A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.”
- verb (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
- verb (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch. “When we get into the factory, trip the lights.”
- verb (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event “The alarm system tripped, throwing everyone into a panic.”
- verb Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
- verb (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs. “After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.”
- adjective (poker slang) Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).
- noun (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
- noun (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
- noun A flock of wigeons.
Synonyms
aberration bloomer blooper blunder boner boo-boo break clanger cock-up disadventure error fault faux pas floater flub fluff fuckup gaffe goof howler slip head trip tripper trip-up stumble misstep trip up travel jaunt actuate
Etymology
From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.
From Middle English tryppe, from Old French trippe. Possibly related to troop.
Webster’s 1913
- noun To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; --sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.
- noun To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
- verb To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; --often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling.
- verb Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
Etymology [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See Tramp.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “trip”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details