(intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
(nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
(nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
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Be careful not to trip on the tree roots.
When he tripped he bloodied his knee.
She bounded by, and tripped so light / They had not time to take a steady sight.
Come, and trip it, as you go, / On the light fantastic toe.
Last summer we tripped to the coast.
After taking the LSD, I started tripping about fairies and colors.
The alarm system tripped, throwing everyone into a panic.
When we get into the factory, trip the lights.
These her women can trip me if I err.
Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure.
A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble.
till his tongue trip
Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away.
We made a trip to the beach.
It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.
And watches with a trip his foe to foil.
A trip of cheese.
His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door.
trip the light fantastic W
It's dark because the trip operated.
ego trip; power trip; nostalgia trip; guilt trip
He had a strange trip after taking LSD.
Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.
Imperfect words, with childish trips.
He was injured due to a trip down the stairs.
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.