1. [n]  an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
2. [n]  a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"
3. [n]  a journey for some purpose (usually including the return); "he took a trip to the shopping center"
4. [n]  a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water"
5. [n]  an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills"
6. [n]  a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs; "an acid trip"
7. [v]  get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend"
8. [v]  put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
9. [v]  make a trip for pleasure
10. [v]  miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root."
11. [v]  cause to stumble

Trip
Trip is celebrated Grapevine photographer Susan Lipper`s new, conceptually ambitious artist`s book: an assembled narrative of a fictional road trip in America, destination and starting point unknown. Adrift. The date is the present, but only slightly so. The viewer is cast without aid amongst snatches of text and vernacular objects, staged or found, that render the landscape neither familiar nor foreign. Semiotic interplay is introduced with seemingly objective signs and symbols, readable in a traditional sense, yet ... what meanings do they serve here? Re-appropriating the documentary tradition of road photography, Lipper`s trip is a new American narrative, perfectly suited for our hyper-mediating times, and is by turns arcanely sophisticated, solipsistically funny, resolutely urbane, and grammatically hokey. An accessible joyride on many levels, Trip is destined to become a landmark photography book.

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1. \Trip\, n. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tripped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Tripping}.] [OE. trippen; akin to D. trippen, Dan. trippe,
   and E. tramp. See {Tramp}.]
   1. 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.
            This horse anon began to trip and dance. --Chaucer.
            Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic
            toe.                                  --Milton.
            She bounded by, and tripped so light They had not
            time to take a steady sight.          --Dryden.
   2. To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip
      to Europe.
   3. 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.
   4. Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense
      against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake;
      to fail. ``Till his tongue trip.'' --Locke.
            A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind
            understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip
            and stumble.                          --South.
            Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be
            changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to
            trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when
            most secure.                          --Dryden.
            What? dost thou verily trip upon a word? --R.
                                                  Browning.
   

2. \Trip\, v. t.
   1. 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.
            The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of
            his cause.                            --Abp.
                                                  Bramhall.
   2. Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an
      obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
            To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword.
                                                  --Shak.
   3. To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict. [R.]
            These her women can trip me if I err. --Shak.
   4. (Naut.)
      (a) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or
          buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
      (b) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for
          lowering it.
   5. (Mach.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or
      compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent.
   

3. \Trip\, n.
   1. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a
      skip.
            His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the
            trip of a light female step glide to or from the
            door.                                 --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
   2. A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt.
            I took a trip to London on the death of the queen.
                                                  --Pope.
   3. A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or
      balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake.
            Imperfect words, with childish trips. --Milton.
            Each seeming trip, and each digressive start.
                                                  --Harte.
   4. A small piece; a morsel; a bit. [Obs.] ``A trip of
      cheese.'' --Chaucer.
   5. A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his
      antagonist to lose footing.
            And watches with a trip his foe to foil. --Dryden.
            It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a
            man to the ground.                    --South.
   6. (Naut.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to
      windward.
   7. A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. [Prov. Eng. &
      Scott.]
   8. A troop of men; a host. [Obs.] --Robert of Brunne.
   9. (Zo["o]l.) A flock of widgeons.