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3 VERB If you trip when you are walking, you knock your foot against something and fall or nearly fall. □ [V ] She tripped and fell last night and broke her hip. □ [V + on/over ] He tried to follow Jack's footsteps in the snow and tripped on a rock. ● PHRASAL VERB Trip up means the same as trip . □ [V P ] I tripped up and hurt my foot. □ [V P + on/over ] Make sure trailing flexes are kept out of the way so you don't trip up over them.

4 VERB If you trip someone who is walking or running, you put your foot or something else in front of them, so that they knock their own foot against it and fall or nearly fall. □ [V n] One guy stuck his foot out and tried to trip me. ● PHRASAL VERB Trip up means the same as trip . □ [V n P ] He made a sudden dive for Uncle Jim's legs to try to trip him up.

5 N‑COUNT If you say that someone is, for example, on a power trip , a guilt trip , or a nostalgia trip , you mean that their behaviour is motivated by power, guilt, or nostalgia. [INFORMAL , DISAPPROVAL ] □  There's such pressure to be happy in Hawaii, if you're unhappy you're on a guilt trip. □  The biggest star perk, and the biggest power trip, must be the private plane.

6 N‑COUNT A trip is an experience that someone has when their mind is affected by a drug such as LSD. [INFORMAL ]

7 VERB [usu cont] If someone is tripping , they are having an experience in which their mind is affected by a drug such as LSD. [INFORMAL ] □ [V + on ] One night I was tripping on acid. [Also V ]

8 VERB If someone trips somewhere, they walk there with light, quick steps. [LITERARY ] □ [V prep/adv] A girl in a red smock tripped down the hill.

▸  trip up

1 PHRASAL VERB If someone or something trips a person up , or if they trip up , they fail or make a mistake. □ [V n P ] Your own lies will trip you up. □ [V P n] He will do all he can to trip up the new right-wing government. □ [V P ] The two occasions she tripped up tell you nothing about how often she got away with it.

2 → see also trip 3 , trip 4 COLLOCATIONS trip NOUN 1

noun + trip : boat, fishing, shopping; business, school; road, return

adjective + trip : long, quick, short; recent, regular; foreign, overseas

verb + trip : book, organize, plan; cancel

tri|par|tite /tra I pɑː ^r ta I t/ ADJ [usu ADJ n] You can use tripartite to describe something that has three parts or that involves three groups of people. [FORMAL ] □  …tripartite meetings between Government ministers, trades union leaders and industrialists.

tripe /tra I p/

1 N‑UNCOUNT Tripe is the stomach of a pig, cow, or ox which is eaten as food.

2 N‑UNCOUNT You refer to something that someone has said or written as tripe when you think that it is silly and worthless. [INFORMAL ] □  I've never heard such a load of tripe in all my life.

tri|ple /tr I p ^ə l/ (triples , tripling , tripled )

1 ADJ [ADJ n] Triple means consisting of three things or parts. □  …a triple somersault. □  In 1882 Germany, Austria, and Italy formed the Triple Alliance.

2 VERB If something triples or if you triple it, it becomes three times as large in size or number. □ [V ] I got a fantastic new job and my salary tripled. □ [V + in ] The Exhibition has tripled in size from last year. □ [V n] The merger puts the firm in a position to triple its earnings.

3 PREDET If something is triple the amount or size of another thing, it is three times as large. □  The mine reportedly had an accident rate triple the national average.