Meaning and Origin
What does the name Trip mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
Origin and Meaning of Trip
User Submitted Origins
American
42%
English
42%
Dutch
5%
Czech
5%
Canadian
5%
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Nigeria says the name Trip is of Canadian origin and means "Family visit".
- A submission from Wisconsin, U.S. says the name Trip means "Traveler" and is of English origin.
International Interest
Also see international interest
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
verb Trip
Senses
- To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5."This horse anon began to trip and dance." [Chaucer.]"Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe." [Milton.]"She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not time to take a steady sight." [Dryden.]
- To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
- To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false step; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.
- Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail."Till his tongue trip." [Locke.]"A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble." [South.]"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." [Dryden.]"What? dost thou verily trip upon a word?" [R. Browning.]
Etymology: OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe, and E. tramp. See Tramp
verb Trip
Senses
- To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling."The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of his cause." [Abp. Bramhall.]
- (Fig)To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail."To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword." [Shak.]
- To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict; also called trip up.(R)"These her women can trip me if I err." [Shak.]
- [Naut]
- To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- [Mach] To release, let fall, or set free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent; to activate by moving a release mechanism, often unintentionally; as, to trip an alarm.
noun Trip
Senses
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip."His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door." [Sir W. Scott.]
- A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt."I took a trip to London on the death of the queen." [Pope.]
- A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake."Imperfect words, with childish trips." [Milton.]"Each seeming trip, and each digressive start." [Harte.]
- A small piece; a morsel; a bit.(Obs)"A tripof cheese." [Chaucer.]
- A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing."And watches with a trip his foe to foil." [Dryden.]" It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground." [South.]
- [Naut] A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc.(Prov. Eng. & Scott)
- A troop of men; a host.(Obs)
- [Zoöl] A flock of widgeons.
Other Dictionary Sources
- An unintentional but embarrassing blunder ("he recited the whole poem without a single trip" and "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later")
- A light or nimble tread ("he heard the trip of women's feet overhead")
- A journey for some purpose (usually including the return) ("he took a trip to the shopping center")
- A catch mechanism that acts as a switch ("the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water")
- An exciting or stimulating experience
- An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- A hallucinatory experience induced by drugs ("an acid trip")
- Get high, stoned, or drugged ("He trips every weekend")
- Put in motion or move to act
- Make a trip for pleasure
- Miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- Cause to stumble ("The questions on the test tripped him up")
Wiktionary
From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen ("to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample"; > Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- We made a to the beach.
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- A stumble or misstep.
- He was injured due to a down the stairs.
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- (figuratively) An error; a failure; a mistake.
- A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- He had a strange after taking LSD.
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- A faux pas, a social error.
- Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- ego ; power ; nostalgia ; guilt
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- (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
- (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
- It's dark because the operated.
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- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- trip the light fantastic W
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- (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
- (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
- A flock of wigeons.
trip was also found in the following language(s): Dutch