Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Slang One who is undergoing a hallucinatory experience induced by a psychedelic drug.
- noun A tripping or triggering device on a mechanism.
- noun Chiefly British One who is taking a short pleasure trip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who trips or moves nimbly; also, one who stumbles, or who causes another to do so.
- noun An excursionist; a tourist.
- noun A street-railroad conductor or driver who is paid according to the number of trips which he makes, or who is employed to make special trips, as in the place of others who are laid off for any cause.
- noun In mach., a part which causes another part to be suddenly released, or to trip.
- noun A machine used to trip or unload a belt-conveyer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.
- noun An excursionist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun oftrip ; one who trips. - noun A person experiencing a
hallucinogenic trip - noun UK A
tourist
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations
- noun a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- noun a walker or runner who trips and almost falls
- noun a tourist who is visiting sights of interest
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Examples
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* It went from bad to worse for the Jets "tripper," assistant coach Sal Alosi.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2010
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* It went from bad to worse for the Jets "tripper," assistant coach Sal Alosi.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2010
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A single man's reputation as a "tripper" influenced the advice that married heavies like Mary Louise might give to him, or to a woman he might be courting.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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Surely, they were capable of enacting toward women, and toward one another, the terms of Martin Buber's I-It relation — Stevenson's "tripper" and the intimidating husbands offer the most intense expressions of that capacity, and no doubt, there were many subtle expressions of it at The Farm as well.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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It is true that there is a punishment inflicted on any person or persons attempting such wanton work -- a fine or the bastinado; yet neither fine nor bastinado would affect the "tripper" if he could only succeed in carving "'Arry" on the
Ziska Marie Corelli 1889
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"tripper" yearns for them to do, because he can't think of anything else to remark at the moment -- all they would say to him would be the words,
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913
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The goal was to explain what was happening and relieve some uncertainty so the tripper could talk himself down from a freak out.
Sally Duros: Where's LSD Rescue When You Need It in Blizzard 2011? Sally Duros 2011
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The goal was to explain what was happening and relieve some uncertainty so the tripper could talk himself down from a freak out.
Sally Duros: Where's LSD Rescue When You Need It in Blizzard 2011? Sally Duros 2011
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More World Series Game 3 Live Blog Three innings later Josh Hamilton shook off his .100 World Series batting average by blasting a 426-foot shot to center, setting off the orange fireworks that follow every round-tripper these days in this cozy ballpark on the prairie.
Rangers Strike Back, 4-2 Matthew Futterman 2010
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This is all about HIM, it has NOTHING to do with the American people, he's an ego tripper, a narcissist.
Obama challenges reform detractors to explain themselves 2009
sionnach commented on the word tripper
German for a bout of 'gonorrhea'.
January 9, 2008