Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - trip

~1 n 1 a journey to a place and back again  (Did you have a good trip? | make a trip)  (I couldn't carry everything at once, so I had to make several trips. | go on/take a trip)  (We're thinking of taking a trip to the mountains. | coach/boat trip)  (a boat trip up the Thames | business/school/skiing etc)  (a business trip to Japan | day trip (=a pleasure trip done in one day))  (- see travel1) 2 slang the experiences someone has while their mind is affected by a drug such as LSD  (a bad trip) 3 an act of falling as a result of hitting something with your foot 4 AmE slang a person or experience that is amusing and very different from normal  (She's a real trip.)  (- see also round trip) ~2 v 1 »FALL« also trip up to hit something with your foot while you are walking or running so that you fall or almost fall  (I didn't push him, he tripped.) + over  (Pick up that box or someone will trip over it.) 2 »MAKE SB FALL« also trip sb up to make someone fall by putting your foot in front of them when they are moving  (Baggio was clearly tripped inside the penalty area.) 3 »WALK/DANCE« literary to walk or run with quick light steps as if you are dancing  (trip along/over/down etc)  (a little girl tripping along the lane) 4 trip off the tongue to be easy to say or pronounce  (Monofluorophosphate! It doesn't exactly trip off the tongue, does it?) 5 trip a switch/wire to accidentally make an electrical system operate by moving part of it  (Alarm bells were ringing so I must have tripped a switch on my way in.) 6 »DRUG« also trip out slang to experience the effects of an illegal drug such as LSD 7 trip the light fantastic humorous to dance trip up phr v 1 T trip someone up) to trick someone into making a mistake  (The questions look simple, but they're designed to trip you up.) 2 T trip someone up) to make someone fall by putting your foot in front of them when they are walking 3 to hit something with your foot while you are walking so that you fall 4 to make a mistake + over  (It's easy to trip up over some of the regulations.)