| 单词 | tripper-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmastripper-up 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. < as lemmas |
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