trip

Definitions of trip in various dictionaries:

noun - a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)

noun - a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs

noun - an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall

noun - an exciting or stimulating experience

noun - a catch mechanism that acts as a switch

noun - a light or nimble tread

noun - an unintentional but embarrassing blunder

verb - miss a step and fall or nearly fall

verb - cause to stumble

verb - make a trip for pleasure

verb - put in motion or move to act

verb - get high, stoned, or drugged

A going from one place to another; a journey.

A stumble or fall.

A maneuver causing someone to stumble or fall.

A mistake.

Slang.

A hallucinatory experience induced by a psychedelic drug: an acid trip.

An intense, stimulating, or exciting experience: a power trip.

Slang.

A usually temporary but absorbing interest: a health food trip.

A certain way of life or situation: “deny that his reclusiveness is some sort of deliberate star trip” (Patricia Bosworth).

A light or nimble tread.

A device, such as a pawl, for triggering a mechanism.

The action of such a device.

To stumble.

To move nimbly with light, rapid steps; skip.

To be released, as a tooth on an escapement wheel in a watch.

To make a trip.

To have a drug-induced hallucination.

To cause to stumble or fall.

To trap or catch in an error or inconsistency.

To release a catch, trigger, or switch, thereby setting something in operation.

Nautical.

To raise (an anchor) from the bottom.

To tip or turn (a yardarm) into a position for lowering.

To lift (an upper mast) in order to remove the fid before lowering.

verb - to miss one's step in walking or running