a journey from one place to another, usually for a short time and often for pleasure or work
Our family is planning a trip to the mountains next weekend.
She bought a new suitcase for her business trip.
✦ From Middle English trippen, originally meaning ‘to step lightly’, later applied to short journeys.
to catch your foot on something and stumble or fall, or to make someone do this
I tripped on the curb and nearly dropped the groceries.
Watch your step so you don't trip.
✦ Middle English trippen, from Old French triper ‘to tread, stamp’, of Germanic origin.
an act of stumbling or a momentary loss of balance while walking or running
With a sudden trip, the runner lost his lead in the race.
His nervous trip onstage made the audience gasp.
✦ Extension of the verb sense ‘to stumble’ used as a noun since the 16th century.
(of a switch or safety device) to automatically turn off a circuit or piece of equipment, or to make it turn off
The hair dryer overloaded the circuit and the breaker tripped.
Surge protectors trip to stop dangerous voltage spikes.
✦ Extended technical sense from the idea of a mechanical part being ‘pushed out of place’ to break a circuit, first recorded in the early 20th century.
an experience of hallucinations and altered perception caused by taking a psychedelic drug
He described his first LSD trip as colorful and surreal.
Some travelers visit the rainforest for an ayahuasca trip.
✦ Slang use from the 1960s, influenced by the idea of the mind ‘traveling’ under drugs.
a series of drawings in boxes that tell a short story, often printed in newspapers or online
I read the Sunday comic strip every week.
He draws a webcomic strip about space explorers.
to dismantle something, taking away useful or valuable parts
Mechanics will strip the old engine for spare parts.
Thieves stripped the abandoned house of copper wiring.
