Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The rubbery lining of the stomach of cattle or other ruminants, used as food.
- n. Informal Something of no value; rubbish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The entrails, bowels, intestines, or guts; hence, the belly: chiefly used in the plural.
- n. The greater part of the stomach of a ruminant, as the ox, dressed and used for food. Tripe includes the whole of the cardiac division of the stomach—that is, of the two compartments known as the rumen, or paunch, and the reticulum. The former (called
plain tripe ) is the most extensive; the latter is the best, being that calledhoneycomb tripe . See cut underRuminantia .
Wiktionary
- n. The lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
- n. The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
- n. Something disparaged as valueless, especially written works and popular entertainment (movies, television).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
- n. The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
WordNet 3.0
- n. lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food
- n. nonsensical talk or writing
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French tripes, intestines, tripe.
Examples
“It's pretty much dictating what a woman can or cannot do with her own body (and not just women, but men too), and this kind of tripe is found in a LOT of discourse, from the feminist to the progressive to the religious.”
On Body, Mind and Spirit, and our freedom to use them as we wish.
“Smart, dark paranormal romance would be such a treat compared to the typical formulaic Harlequin tripe in a monster costume.”
“People — and I do actually mean “people” here, not viciously stupid animals like yourself — already know that that pathetically infantile piece of snivelling ideological tripe is demonstrably false.”
“Blah, blah, blah ... same old tripe from the old, worn Clintons.”
“For supports in high profile positions in either campt to come out with this type of tripe is incredibly counter productive to the outcome of the general election.”
“BTW, Zach, though many many many Asian people will argue, I think the best cart for tripe is on … E. Pike?”
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“The thought of you writing tripe is hard to imagine.”
“#61 – “You were not present at either Laura Welch Bush†™ s accident nor at Ted Kennedy†™ s, so all your tripe is mere speculation.””
“The reason why so many of the state's Republicans would not support Eikenberry is that he ran a slimeball primary campaign and violated Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment with really nasty hit pieces against Morrison, complemented by more vile tripe from the NRA supporting Eikenberry.”
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“My only encounter with tripe is with Campbell's Philadelphi Pepper Pot Stew.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tripe’.
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 376 more...
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Wordplay & Pun
wordplay, pound, conceit, clinch, joke, quibble, equivoque, double-entendre, quillet, calembour, carriwitchet, paranomasia and 89 more...
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Meat Parts: the Cuts, the Innards, and the Left...
T-bone - Sounds good!
Shoulder - Alright.
Liver - Fine.
Sweetbread - Okay.
Gizzard - Pushing it.
Brains - What?!wing, wedge bone sirloin, veal, umbles, tri-tip, tripe, triangle steak, tournedo, top sirloin, top loin, tongue, thigh and 147 more...
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Hence
Words with definitions that have a "hence" in them.
hanger, Deet, tripe, spindlelegs, fiddle, store, pluck, snap, villain, link, comedy, particular and 376 more...
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Food that Shall Not Be Named
Vilest food substances on the planet. Take it beyond simple likes and dislikes, people. We're talking food that's really gross (at least to a big cross-section of the world), or utterly bizarre.
casu marzu, pickled pig lips, head cheese, lutefisk, surströmming, hákarl, stinkhead, stinkflipper, haggis, muktuk, jellied pig's feet, tripe and 21 more...
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Nethack words
Words you mainly only encounter whilst playing Nethack.
troglodyte, skirmisher, coalesce, djinni, stripling, uncursed, Elbereth, tripe, lichen, grid bug, kobold, naiad and 16 more...
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Trash Talk
Words that indicate meaningless, confusing or deceptive talk.
white noise, blarney, pidgin, jabber, bullshit, yadda yadda yadda, mishmash, farrago, gobbledygook, yammer, drivel, jargon and 18 more...
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Expressions of disbelief or disagreement
bollocks, come off it, rubbish, as if, bullshit, guff, i don't believe it, are you mad, tosh, nonsense, garbage, bunkum and 51 more...
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feed me
fodder
tripe, trotter, belly, beef, oyster, ei, beanz, ale, bier, jerez, crunch, saliva and 8 more...
slumry I have no desire to eat it, and less desire to read it. Jul 12, 2007