T is for Trips

trip

v. (trips, tripping, tripped)
1 catch one's foot on something and stumble or fall.
2 (trip up) make a mistake. (trip someone up) detect or expose someone in a mistake or inconsistency.
3 walk, run, or dance with quick light steps. (of words) flow lightly and easily: a name which trips off the tongue.
4 activate (a mechanism), especially by contact with a switch. (of part of an electric circuit) disconnect automatically as a safety measure.
5 Nautical release and raise (an anchor) from the seabed by means of a cable. turn (a yard or other object) from a horizontal to a vertical position for lowering.
6 informal experience hallucinations induced by taking a psychedelic drug, especially LSD.
7 go on a short journey.

n.
1 a journey or excursion, especially for pleasure.
2 an instance of tripping.
3 informal a hallucinatory experience caused by taking a psychedelic drug. a self-indulgent attitude or activity: a power trip.
4 a device that trips a mechanism, circuit, etc.

- PHRASES trip the light fantastic humorous dance. [ORIGIN from ‘Trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe’ (Milton's L'Allegro).]

- ORIGIN ME: from OFr. triper, from MDu. trippen ‘to skip, hop’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary