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Definition of "trip up" []

  • To commit an error, make a mistake. (verb)
  • To cause (someone) to commit an error, trick into a mistake. (verb)
  • To fall or stumble. (verb)
  • To cause (someone) to fall or stumble. (verb)

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Use "trip up" in a sentence
  • "But the schedule of my trip up to Montes Claros allows me a few days of gawking in Rio."
  • "By October, after a trip up the Rio Tocantins, which flows northward into the mainstem Amazon not far upstream from Para, they had packed off another batch—again mostly insects, but now also including a few bird skins and shells."
  • "Gary Scott, our trip up Denali—that was the whole catalyst for me leaving my job."