Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang One who is undergoing a hallucinatory experience induced by a psychedelic drug.
- n. A tripping or triggering device on a mechanism.
- n. Chiefly British One who is taking a short pleasure trip.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A machine used to trip or unload a belt-conveyer. It consists essentially of two rolls placed one over the other in a suitable frame or support. The traveling-belt, guided upward by rollers supported by the frame of the tripper, passes over the upper roll, turns abruptly downward and backward and under the lower roll, and then onward in a horizontal direction. The load, which rests on the traveling-belt, is carried over the upper roll, when the sudden change in the direction of the belt throws it off into a spout which leads it away to the bins or other storage-places. The tripper may be fixed at one point, or it may travel on rails placed on each side of the conveyer for convenience in unloading at different points. The flxed tripper may be arranged to discharge into a bin and to stop automatically when the bin is full. See
conveyer , 4. - n. One who trips or moves nimbly; also, one who stumbles, or who causes another to do so.
- n. An excursionist; a tourist.
- n. A street-railroad conductor or driver who is paid according to the number of trips which he makes, or who is employed to make special trips, as in the place of others who are laid off for any cause.
- n. In mach., a part which causes another part to be suddenly released, or to trip.
Wiktionary
- n. Agent noun of trip; one who trips.
- n. A person experiencing a hallucinogenic trip
- n. UK A tourist
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.
- n. An excursionist.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations
- n. a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- n. a walker or runner who trips and almost falls
- n. a tourist who is visiting sights of interest
Examples
“* It went from bad to worse for the Jets "tripper," assistant coach Sal Alosi.”
“Surely, they were capable of enacting toward women, and toward one another, the terms of Martin Buber's I-It relation — Stevenson's "tripper" and the intimidating husbands offer the most intense expressions of that capacity, and no doubt, there were many subtle expressions of it at The Farm as well.”
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
“A single man's reputation as a "tripper" influenced the advice that married heavies like Mary Louise might give to him, or to a woman he might be courting.”
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
“It is true that there is a punishment inflicted on any person or persons attempting such wanton work -- a fine or the bastinado; yet neither fine nor bastinado would affect the "tripper" if he could only succeed in carving "'Arry" on the”
“tripper" yearns for them to do, because he can't think of anything else to remark at the moment -- all they would say to him would be the words,”
“This is all about HIM, it has NOTHING to do with the American people, he's an ego tripper, a narcissist.”
“The goal was to explain what was happening and relieve some uncertainty so the tripper could talk himself down from a freak out.”
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“More World Series Game 3 Live Blog Three innings later Josh Hamilton shook off his .100 World Series batting average by blasting a 426-foot shot to center, setting off the orange fireworks that follow every round-tripper these days in this cozy ballpark on the prairie.”
“Some of them are: a. The Day Tripper line includes Mini tripper”
“Five of us and a "tripper" a counselor who specialized in taking out canoe trips set out in two canoes from the middle of Algonquin Park for a six-day trip that would take us to North Bay.”
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(Grammatical words have been omitted)polythene, Sun King, rhythm and blues, taxman, tripper, monkey business, mailman, matchbox, rock and roll, ooh, blue jay, reprise and 388 more...
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on the road again
nomad, itinerant, wanderer, gypsy, vagrant, ranger, floater, gadling, scatterling, landloper, wayfarer, rover and 59 more...
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salvific, redemptive, salvic, roil, changeling, barrow, burro, sow, swath, haymow, shock, sheaves and 190 more...
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faux amis
Words which mean something different in another language.
gift, rat, handy, puff, mist, bald, bad, tripper, qualm, slip, fast, art and 57 more...
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