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Is trip a Scrabble word?

Yes, trip is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of trip?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (figurative, archaic) An error; a failure; a mistake.Examples: "Imperfect words, with childish trips."; "Each seeming trip, and each digressive start."Synonyms: aberration, barbarism, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, breakarchaicfiguratively

2. (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.Examples: "He had a strange trip after taking LSD."; "Unlike other accepted stimuli, from nicotine to liquor, the hallucinogens promise those who take the “trip” a magic-carpet escape from dull reality in which perceptions are heightened, sense distorted, and the imagination permanently bedazzled with ecstatic visions of teleological verity."; "We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee / We don't take our trips on LSD"colloquial

3. (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.Examples: "ego trip"; "power trip"; "nostalgia trip"broadly

4. (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.

5. (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.Examples: "It's dark because the trip operated."

6. (nautical) A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's footExamples: "Be careful not to trip on those tree roots. You tripped over the cat and fell downstairs just last week."intransitive

2. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.Examples: "A pedestrian was able to trip the burglar as he was running away."; "Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch."sometimestransitive

3. (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etcExamples: "And the Pharasay / Then durst nothynge say, / But let the matter slyp, / And made truth to tryp;"; "[T]ill his Tongue trips"; "A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble."intransitive

4. (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.Examples: "These her women can trip me if I err."obsoletetransitive

5. (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.Examples: "When we get into the factory, trip the lights."transitive

6. (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an eventExamples: "The alarm system tripped, throwing everyone into a panic."intransitive

adj (English)

1. (poker slang) Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).not-comparableslang

noun (English)

1. (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.ScotlandUKdialectalobsolete

2. (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.obsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "trip"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "trip"?

Scrabble
6 points
T1
R1
I1
P3
Words With Friends
7 points
T1
R1
I1
P4

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