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tripper
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tripper has 4 senses
- tripper(n = noun.person) Array - (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations; Array is a kind of drug user, substance abuser, user
- tripper(n = noun.person) stumbler - a walker or runner who trips and almost falls; Array is a kind of footer, pedestrian, walker
- tripper(n = noun.person) excursionist, rubberneck, sightseer - a tourist who is visiting sights of interest; Array is a kind of holidaymaker, tourer, tourist
- tripper(n = noun.artifact) trip - a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water" is a kind of catch, stop
Derived form verb trip1
Derived form verb trip3
Derived form verb trip4
CIDE DICTIONARY
tripper, n.
- One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer. [1913 Webster]
- An excursionist. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tripper, n.
1 Brit. a person who goes on a pleasure trip or excursion.
2 colloq. a person experiencing hallucinatory effects of a drug.
1 Brit. a person who goes on a pleasure trip or excursion.
2 colloq. a person experiencing hallucinatory effects of a drug.
THESAURUS
tripper
LSD user, acidhead, addict, adventurer, alcoholic, alpinist, astronaut, camper, chain smoker, climber, cocaine sniffer, cokie, comers and goers, commuter, cosmopolite, cruiser, cubehead, dipsomaniac, dope fiend, doper, drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunkard, excursionist, explorer, fare, fiend, freak, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, glue sniffer, goer, habitual, hajji, head, heavy smoker, hophead, hype, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, junkie, marijuana smoker, mariner, methhead, mountaineer, narcotics addict, palmer, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pilgrim, pillhead, pioneer, pothead, rubberneck, rubbernecker, sailor, sightseer, snowbird, speed freak, straphanger, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, user, viator, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler
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