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Definition: TRIPPED |
TRIPPEDImperative & past participle1. Of Trip |
Date "TRIPPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Crosswords: TRIPPED |
| English words defined with "TRIPPED": burglar alarm ♦ catch ♦ fire alarm ♦ smoke alarm ♦ trip up, trip wire. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TRIPPED": AUXILIARY-EQUIPMENT OPERATOR ♦ pump-room operator ♦ some random X ♦ tableau curtain, tabs. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TRIPPED": Trip. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 80.16% | 198 | 21,729 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 19.43% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 247 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TRIPPED": tripped-out. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tripped | 3 |
picture tripped | 2 |
pic tripped | 2 |
breaker circuit tripped | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TRIPPED": fieldstripped, outstripped, stripped. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TRIPPED" (pronounced tri"pt) |
| 5 | t r i" p t | outstripped, stripped. |
| 4 | -r i" p t | crypt, dripped, encrypt, gripped, nondescript, ripped, script. |
| 3 | -i" p t | chipped, 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. | ||
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. | |
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