单词 | tripper |
释义 | trippern. One who or that which trips. 1. One who dances; one who moves with light, sprightly steps; in quot. a1847 transferred applied to a shoe or slipper. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > dancer generally > [noun] leapera1000 sailour?a1366 tripperc1380 dancerc1440 sallierc1440 hopperc1480 flinger?a1513 foot clapper1620 pranker1628 saltatorya1640 prancer1653 apache dancer1912 hoofer1923 rug-cutter1934 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > light > one who tripperc1380 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > for specific purpose > for dancing trippera1847 ballet shoe1858 ballet slipper1880 ballet pump1914 pointe shoe1951 ballerina1952 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 246 A daunsere, a trippere on tapitis. a1577 G. Gascoigne Grief of Joye iv. xxxi, in Compl. Wks. (1910) II. 554 Dancyng delights, are like a whyrlyng wheele..Thes tryppers strive, to throwe theire braynes awaye, As wheeles voyde water. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. H4v [The ostrich] outstrippeth the nimblest trippers of his feathered condition in footmanshippe. 1691 J. Dryden King Arthur iv. i. 38 Ye Sylvan Trippers of the Green. a1847 E. Cook When I wore Red Shoes i What were Cinderella's slippers To my pair of fairy trippers? 2. One who or that which causes to stumble. Also tripper-up; spec. in slang: see quots. 1887, 1904. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stumbling > one who or that which causes balk1549 tripper1605 stumbling-block1663 hub1669 trip-wire1916 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 59 A tripper, or supplanter. 1860 C. A. Collins Eye-witness vi. 81 He has either been tripped up, or has stumbled..The tripper up..will..come in for certain remarks which are the reverse of complimentary. 1887 Daily Chron. 18 Nov. (Farmer) A witness at the East End inquest yesterday alluded to ‘trippers up’... ‘A man who trips you up and robs you’. 1904 J. Sweeney At Scotland Yard xii. 313 Women known as trippers up, who preyed on drunken seamen. 1905 W. E. Geil Yankee in Pigmy Land iv. 44 Roots were encountered. They were regular trippers. 3. One who or that which stumbles (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > errant person > [noun] prevaricatora1425 by-walker1549 swerver1598 tripper1806 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [noun] > moral fall or lapse > one who tripper1806 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stumbling > one who stumblerc1440 tripper1806 1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 560 A sipper is a tripper. 1856 Titan Mag. Nov. 415/1 Our [church] service is spoil'd by..The trippers—the clippers—the impudent skippers. 1903 Union Mag. Nov. 513/1 Dr. Young's camel was a ‘tripper’ and it stumbled and threw the Doctor over its head. 4. One who goes on a trip, or short journey or voyage for pleasure; an excursionist. colloquial. cheap tripper, one who travels by a cheap trip. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > on pleasure trip excursioner1786 trippist1792 tripper1813 excursionist1829 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > [noun] > person excursioner1786 trippist1792 tripper1813 excursionist1829 1813 Drakard's Paper 3 Oct. in Ashton Mod. Street Ballads (1888) 80 Trippers to the seaside for a week. 1851 Eliza Cook's Jrnl. 19 July 177 The Tripper is the growth of railways and monster trains. 1872 J. Hartley Yorks. Ditties 2nd Ser. 140 A lot of cheap trippers 'at's just com'd for a day. 1899 Kitchin in Ruskin in Oxford etc. (1904) 154 The modern tripper leaves only desolation and dirty paper behind him. 5. A street railroad conductor or other employee who is paid by the trip or journey. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > public transport employees > employee paid by trip tripper1882 1882 J. D. McCabe New York 244 The ‘trippers’, as those men are called who only run three-quarters of a day, get $1·50. 1950 Reading (Pa.) Times 28 Feb. They had refused to operate ‘tripper’ or extra, runs because five members of the union had been furloughed. The company said this situation resulted in the failure of nine ‘tripper’ runs to be made. 6. Mechanics. A contrivance for tripping; a trip. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > other specific mechanisms stop?1523 clockwork1652 sector1715 rackwork1755 scapement1789 scape1798 safety catch1827 controller1836 dog1840 Geneva stop1841 Maltese cross1852 throw-off1852 gearhead1869 tripper1870 Scotch yoke1880 Geneva movement1881 belt-tightener1882 watch1882 selector1890 Geneva wheel1891 throw-out1894 Geneva motion1897 horse-geara1899 Geneva mechanism1903 safety catch1904 Geneva drive1913 Geneva1919 Possum1961 1870 Eng. Mech. 14 Jan. 430/1 To each rod a tripper or pallet is affixed. 1893 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 4 717 As soon as the sheaf has attained the required size it automatically raises a tripper. 1908 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 59/2 The tripper works the air-delay valve. 7. One who experiences hallucinations induced by a drug, esp. LSD. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [noun] > effects of hallucinatory drugs > one experiencing tripper1966 freak1967 1966 T. Leary in Playboy Sept. 110/2 These episodes can be dealt with easily by an experienced guide who recognizes where the LSD tripper is caught. 1968 New Scientist 3 Oct. 38/3 LSD ‘trippers’..need no sleep. 1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 78/4 When I returned several days later, Wheeler's was in an uproar over the discovery of a dead tripper. 1979 B. Malamud Dubin's Lives i. 29 One of the swamis there, a secret acid tripper, got on my nerves. Compounds attributive and in other combinations (in sense 4). ΚΠ 1904 Daily Chron. 17 Sept. 3/1 These pictures were painted in tripper haunts. 1907 H. Wyndham Flare of Footlights xii Pull us down to the island. The tripper element won't be so conspicuous there. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 7 Aug. 4/3 The tripper-thronged part of the island. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tripperv. colloquial. rare. intransitive. To behave like a tripper (sense 4); to take trips or excursions. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > make short journey or excursion, esp. for pleasure to go abroadc1400 to make an errandc1400 to look out1551 jaunt1647 out1653 trip1664 to make or take a step1670 to step up1758 run1759 excursion1792 excursionize1866 tripper1959 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > make outing or excursion [verb (intransitive)] junket1607 out1653 trip1664 excursion1792 excursionize1866 tripper1959 1959 G. Jenkins Twist of Sand ii. 41 Trippering up and down the coast. 1974 ‘S. Harvester’ Forgotten Road iii. 37 They trippered around Istanbul for some days. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1380v.1959 |
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