Word Meaning

Meaning of "trips" and the crossword clue

- Activate
- Any slip or blunder
- Cause to stumble
- Drug-induced hallucination
- Excursion
- Journey
- Journey in the fall
- Lose footing
- Ride
- Sortie, trigger
- Stumble
- Stumble right into tip
- Take a tumble during journey
- Voyage
- Expeditions
- Jaunts
- Journeys
- Loses one's footing
- Makes a slip
- Outings
- Stumbles
- Voyages
- 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.
- 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; 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.
- 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.
- Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
- To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
- 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 release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent.
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
- A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
- A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.
- A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc.
- A troop of men; a host.
- A flock of widgeons.