trip trip-up stumble misstep | an unintentional but embarrassing blunder, he recited the whole poem without a single trip, he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later, confusion caused his unfortunate misstep |
trip | a light or nimble tread, he heard the trip of women's feet overhead |
trip | a journey for some purpose (usually including the return), he took a trip to the shopping center |
round trip | a trip to some place and back again |
scouting trip | an expedition undertaken to gain information |
excursion jaunt outing junket pleasure trip expedition sashay | a journey taken for pleasure, many summer excursions to the shore, it was merely a pleasure trip, after cautious sashays into the field |
field trip | a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination |
ocean trip voyage | an act of traveling by water |
self-aggrandizement self-aggrandisement ego trip | an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance |
power trip | (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people |
reconnaissance reconnaissance mission | the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy), an exchange of fire occurred on a reconnaissance mission |
air reconnaissance | reconnaissance either by visual observation from the air or through the use of airborne sensors |
reconnaissance by fire | a method of reconnaissance in which fire is placed on a suspected enemy position in order to cause the enemy to disclose his presence by moving or returning fire |
reconnaissance in force | an offensive operation designed to discover or test the enemy's strength (or to obtain other information) |
electronic reconnaissance | the detection and identification and evaluation and location of foreign electromagnetic radiations (other than radioactive) |
self-gratification head trip | the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure |
reconnaissance plane | a military airplane used to gain information about an enemy |
reconnaissance vehicle scout car | fast armored military vehicle with four-wheel drive and open top |
trip line | a light rope used in lumbering to free a dog hook from a log at a distance |
tripper trip | a catch mechanism that acts as a switch, the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water |
trip wire | a wire stretched close to the ground that activates something (a trap or camera or weapon) when tripped over |
round-trip ticket return ticket | a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route) |
trip head trip | an exciting or stimulating experience |
slip trip | an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall, he blamed his slip on the ice, the jolt caused many slips and a few spills |
guilt guilty conscience guilt feelings guilt trip | remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense |
trip wire | a small military force that serves as a first line of defense, if they become engaged in hostilities it will trigger the intervention of stronger military forces |
Air Force Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Air Force ISR AFISR | an agency focused on ensuring that the United States military attains information superiority, operates worldwide ground sites and an array of airborne reconnaissance and surveillance platforms |
National Reconnaissance Office NRO | an intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations |
trip | a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs, an acid trip |
round-trip light time RTLT | the elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point |
trip up catch | detect a blunder or misstep, The reporter tripped up the senator |
stumble slip up trip up | make an error, She slipped up and revealed the name |
trip trip out turn on get off | get high, stoned, or drugged, He trips every weekend |
trip actuate trigger activate set off spark off spark trigger off touch off | put in motion or move to act, trigger a reaction, actuate the circuits |
dance trip the light fantastic trip the light fantastic toe | move in a pattern, usually to musical accompaniment, do or perform a dance, My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio |
travel trip jaunt | make a trip for pleasure |
stumble trip | miss a step and fall or nearly fall, She stumbled over the tree root |
trip trip up | cause to stumble, The questions on the test tripped him up |