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trip

Pronunciation: /ˈtrip/

“trip” is an Indonesian word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a journey; an excursion or jaunt.
  2. an error; a failure; a mistake
  3. a mechanical cutout device.
  4. a trip-switch or cut-out.
  5. power trip, tripping, power cut (a power outage or a blackout, when an electrical device or system suddenly stops working)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch trip, from English trip, from Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)).

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