What does "trip" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.
2. 3.Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail. "Till his tongue trip." Locke. A blind will thereupon comes to be led by a blind understanding; there is no remedy, but it must trip and stumble. South. Virgil is so exact in every word that none can be changed but for a worse; he pretends sometimes to trip, but it is to make you think him in danger when most secure. Dryden. What dost thou verily trip upon a word R. Browning.
3. 4.To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling. The words of Hobbes's defense trip up the heels of his cause. Abp. Bramhall.
4. 5.Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail. To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword. Shak.
5. 6.To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict. [R.] These her women can trip me if I err. Shak.
6. 7.(Naut.) (a) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free. (b) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
7. 8.(Mach.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent.
8. 9.A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip. His heart bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door. Sir W. Scott.
9. 10.A brief or rapid journey; an excursion or jaunt. I took a trip to London on the death of the queen. Pope.
10. 11.A false step; a stumble; a misstep; a loss of footing or balance. Fig.: An error; a failure; a mistake. Imperfect words, with childish trips. Milton. Each seeming trip, and each digressive start. Harte.
11. 12.A small piece; a morsel; a bit. [Obs.] "A trip of cheese." Chaucer.
12. 13.A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing. And watches with a trip his foe to foil. Dryden. It is the sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. South.
13. 14.(Naut.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
14. 15.A herd or flock, as of sheep, goats, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scott.]
15. 16.A troop of men; a host. [Obs.] Robert of Brunne.
16. 17.(Zoöl.) A flock of widgeons.