trip

Meanings

• a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
  • "he took a trip to the shopping center"
• a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
  • "an acid trip"
• an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
• an exciting or stimulating experience
• a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
  • "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water"
• a light or nimble tread
  • "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"
• an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
  • "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"
  • "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"
• miss a step and fall or nearly fall
• cause to stumble
  • "The questions on the test tripped him up"
• make a trip for pleasure
• put in motion or move to act
• get high, stoned, or drugged
  • "He trips every weekend"

Synonyms

activate, actuate, get off, head trip, jaunt, misstep, set off, slip, spark, spark off, stumble, touch off, travel, trigger, trigger off, trip out, trip up, trip-up, tripper, turn on