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Noun trip has 7 senses

trip - a journey for some purpose (usually including the return); "he took a trip to the shopping center"
--₁ is a kind of journey, journeying
--₁ has particulars:
flight; junket; round trip; run; run; trek; errand; service call

Derived form: verb trip₃
trip - a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs; "an acid trip"
--₂ is a kind of hallucination

Derived form: verb trip₅
slip, trip - an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills"
--₃ is a kind of mishap, misadventure, mischance
--₃ has particulars: spill, tumble, fall
Derived forms: verb trip₂, verb trip₁
trip, head trip - an exciting or stimulting experience
--₄ is a kind of experience
tripper, trip - a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water"
--₅ is a kind of catch, stop

Derived form: verb trip₄
trip - a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"
--₆ is a kind of step
trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep - an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
--₇ is a kind of blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo

Verb trip has 5 senses

stumble, trip - miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"
--₁ is one way to move

Derived forms: noun trip₃, noun tripper₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
trip, trip up - cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up"

Derived form: noun trip₃
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
travel, trip, jaunt - make a trip for pleasure

Derived forms: noun trip₁, noun tripper₃
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody PP
trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off - put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
--₄ is one way to initiate, pioneer

Derived forms: noun trip₅, noun tripper₄
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
trip, trip out, turn on, get off - get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend"

Derived form: noun trip₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s on something