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TRIPPED

Definition: TRIPPED

TRIPPED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Trip

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TRIPPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

 

Crosswords: TRIPPED

English words defined with "TRIPPED": burglar alarmcatchfire alarmsmoke alarmtrip up, trip wire. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TRIPPED": AUXILIARY-EQUIPMENT OPERATORpump-room operatorsome random Xtableau curtain, tabs. (references)
Etymologies containing "TRIPPED": Trip. (references)

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Modern Usage: TRIPPED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

What? You just tripped and fell on his lips (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I wasn't lazing about, I tripped. (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick)

No, I tripped on purpose (The Bad Seed; writing credit: Maxwell Anderson; John Lee Mahin)

There was some ice on the stairs and I tripped and fell into her, that was all. (The Bad Seed; writing credit: Maxwell Anderson; John Lee Mahin)

Lyrics

With a boulder on my shoulder feeling kinda' older I tripped the merry go round (Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen); performing artist: MANFRED MANN)

Long before my tongue has tripped me (Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic; performing artist: The Police)

We tripped, On the urge to feel alive, (Semi-Charmed Life; performing artist: Third Eye Blind)

Tongue Twisters

Twice we tripped toys. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

One of Us Tripped (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: TRIPPED

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: TRIPPED

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Halibut schooner tripped by a heavy sea Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: TRIPPED

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Al winked rakishly at the girl, and he tripped on, striking his feet to the music and swaying his shoulders and swinging his arms

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: TRIPPED

"TRIPPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 80.16% of the time. "TRIPPED" is used about 247 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)80.16%19821,729
Lexical Verb (past participle)19.43%4849,194
Adjective (general or positive)0.4%1339,140
                    Total100.00%247N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: TRIPPED

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "TRIPPED": tripped-out.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TRIPPED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tripped

3

picture tripped

2

pic tripped

2

breaker circuit tripped

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TRIPPED

Language Translations for "TRIPPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

绊' (stumble, Stumbled, stumbling, tripping). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ved sammenhaengende styring bliver alle understoettelsesenheder i en bestemt gruppe efterhaanden sat i bevaegelse i sluttet raekkefoelge (in the sequence control all the units in a predetermined group are tripped in a cyclic sequence). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uitgeschakeld (tripped off), uitgeklapt (out and tripped over). (various references)

   

French

  

sorti-basculé (out and tripped over), sorti et basculé (out and tripped over), dans la commande séquentielle tous les éléments de soutènement d'un groupe déterminé démarrent successivement en séquences cycliques (in the sequence control all the units in a predetermined group are tripped in a cyclic sequence), coupé (tripped off). (various references)

   

German

  

stolperte (stumbled), getrippelt. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εκτός και αναστραμμένο (out and tripped over), διακοπή (abortion, adjournment, break, breather, disconnection, discontinuance, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, pause, recess, respite, severance, vacation). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elszólta magát (his tongue tripped). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scattato (tripped off), nel comando sequenziale tutti gli elementi di sostegno di un gruppo determinato vengono traslati successivamente secondo sequenze cicliche (in the sequence control all the units in a predetermined group are tripped in a cyclic sequence), disinserito e scattato (out and tripped over), disinnescato (tripped off). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

넘어지" (Tumbled). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ippedtray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

saído e basculado (out and tripped over), desactivado (tripped off). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

спотыкаться (falter, trip up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sacado y basculado (out and tripped over), fuera y basculado (out and tripped over), cortado (abbreviated, clipped, corded, crannied, cut, cut with cream, disengaged, felled, off, shaky, sour). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: TRIPPED

Derivations

Words ending with "TRIPPED": fieldstripped, outstripped, stripped. (additional references)


Misspellings

"TRIPPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atrypid, fripped, tippex, traped, treppe, triped, tripedal, tripeds, tripeg, tripeo, tripey, trippen, trippies, trippled, trippy, tript, trppe, Truppe, trupped, trypt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "TRIPPED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "TRIPPED" (pronounced tri"pt)
5t r i" p toutstripped, stripped.
4-r i" p tcrypt, dripped, encrypt, gripped, nondescript, ripped, script.
3-i" p tchipped, clipped, dipped, equipped, flipped, gypped, lipped, nipped, quipped, shipped, sipped, skipped, slipped, tipped, unzipped, whipped, zipped.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: TRIPPED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-p-p-r-t"

-1 letter: dipper, peptid, redipt, ripped, tipped, tipper, trepid.

-2 letters: dript, piped, piper, pipet, pride, pried, redip, riped, tepid, tired, tried, tripe.

-3 letters: diet, dipt, dire, dirt, dite, drip, edit, ired, peri, perp, pert, pied, pier, pipe, prep, repp, ride, ripe, rite, tide, tied, tier, tire, trip.

-4 letters: die, dip, dit, ire, ped, pep, per, pet.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-p-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: stripped.

 

+2 letters: drippiest.

 

+3 letters: overtipped, pinstriped, preprinted, propertied, wiretapped.

 

+4 letters: appertained, apportioned, appreciated, apprenticed, dipterocarp, giftwrapped, interlapped, lepidoptera, livetrapped, outstripped, photoperiod, preadapting, preadaptive, preadopting, promptitude, propitiated, reappointed, sidestepper, transhipped.

 

+5 letters: appropriated, approximated, dipterocarps, expropriated, intercropped, lepidopteran, neuropeptide, participated, photoperiods, precipitated, preportioned, promptitudes, propaedeutic, proportioned, pteridophyte, pteridosperm, sidesteppers, transshipped.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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