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Meaning of trip

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  trip
      n 1: a journey for some purpose (usually including the return);
           "he took a trip to the shopping center"
      2: a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs; "an acid trip"
      3: an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall; "he
         blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and
         a few spills" [syn: {slip}, {trip}]
      4: an exciting or stimulating experience [syn: {trip}, {head
         trip}]
      5: a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure
         activates the tripper and releases the water" [syn:
         {tripper}, {trip}]
      6: a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet
         overhead"
      7: an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the
         whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to
         avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate
         misstep" [syn: {trip}, {trip-up}, {stumble}, {misstep}]
      v 1: miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the
           tree root" [syn: {stumble}, {trip}]
      2: cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up"
         [syn: {trip}, {trip up}]
      3: make a trip for pleasure [syn: {travel}, {trip}, {jaunt}]
      4: put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate
         the circuits" [syn: {trip}, {actuate}, {trigger}, {activate},
         {set off}, {spark off}, {spark}, {trigger off}, {touch off}]
      5: get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend" [syn:
         {trip}, {trip out}, {turn on}, {get off}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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