trip the light fantastic

trip

T0363500 (trĭp)n.1. A going from one place to another; a journey.2. A stumble or fall.3. A maneuver causing someone to stumble or fall.4. A mistake.5. Slang a. A hallucinatory experience induced by a psychedelic drug: an acid trip.b. An intense, stimulating, or exciting experience: a power trip.6. Slang a. A usually temporary but absorbing interest or preoccupation: He's on another health food trip.b. A certain way of life or situation: "deny that his reclusiveness is some sort of deliberate star trip" (Patricia Bosworth).7. A light or nimble tread.8. a. A device, such as a pawl, for triggering a mechanism.b. The action of such a device.v. tripped, trip·ping, trips v.intr.1. To stumble.2. To move nimbly with light rapid steps; skip.3. To be released, as a tooth on an escapement wheel in a watch.4. To make a trip.5. To make a mistake: tripped up on the last question.6. Slang To have a drug-induced hallucination.v.tr.1. To cause to stumble or fall.2. To trap or catch in an error or inconsistency.3. To release (a catch, trigger, or switch), thereby setting something in operation.4. Nautical a. To raise (an anchor) from the bottom.b. To tip or turn (a yardarm) into a position for lowering.c. To lift (an upper mast) in order to remove the fid before lowering.Idiom: trip the light fantastic To dance.

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[Middle English, act of tripping, from trippen, to trip, from Old French tripper, to stamp the foot, of Germanic origin.]

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trip the light fantastic - 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"trip the light fantastic toe, dancedancing, terpsichore, dance, saltation - taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to musicjive - dance to jive music; dance the jivehoof - dance in a professional capacityclog - dance a clog dancetap dance - perform a tap dancebelly dance - perform a belly danceheel - perform with the heels; "heel that dance"shimmy - dance a shimmymove - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right"dance - move in a graceful and rhythmical way; "The young girl danced into the room"bebop, bop - dance the bebopbump - dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind"twist - do the twistwaltz, waltz around - dance a waltztapdance, tap - dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes; "Glover tapdances better than anybody"tango - dance a tangoshag - dance the shagfoxtrot - dance the foxtrotcontra danse, contradance, contredanse, country-dance - perform a contradancebreak dance, break-dance, break - do a break dance; "Kids were break-dancing at the street corner"cakewalk - perform the cakewalk danceconga - dance the congasamba - dance the sambatwo-step - dance the two-stepCharleston - dance the Charlestonboogie - dance to boogie musiccha-cha - dance the cha-chadisco - dance to disco musicmambo - dance a mambopolka - dance a polkaone-step - dance the one-steprhumba, rumba - dance the rhumbamosh, slam dance, thrash, slam - dance the slam dancejig - dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motionsjitterbug - do the jitterbugfolk dance - perform a folk-dancesquare dance - dance in formationquickstep - perform a quickstepkick - kick a leg upskank - dance the skankgrind - dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced