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trip-trapping

trip-trapping is the present participle and gerund of trip-trap.

Meaning of trip-trap

Verb

trip-trap (third-person singular simple present trip-traps, present participle trip-trapping, simple past and past participle trip-trapped)

  1. (intransitive) To make stomping or tapping noises while walking or running.
    • Ramona trip-trapped joyfully all the way to the parked car, and when she reached home she trip-trapped up and down the hall and all around the house.2002, Beverly Cleary, The Best of Ramona
  2. (rare, transitive) To cause one to trip-trap.
    • Her lips parted, Freeman was suddenly triptrapping, no, she was triptrapping him, and then they were triptrapping together […]2014, Scott Nicholson, The Home: A Supernatural Thriller

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Noun

trip-trapping (uncountable)

  1. the sounds that goat hoofs make
    • And every now and then I got a snatch of that trip-trapping noise from somewhere behind me.2013, Tanya Landman, 100% Pig

Questions about trip-trapping

What does trip-trapping mean?
Trip-trapping means the sounds that goat hoofs make.
What is trip-trapping the present participle and gerund of?
Trip-trapping is the present participle and gerund of trip-trap.
What part of speech is trip-trapping?
Trip-trapping is a noun.

Words near trip-trapping in the dictionary

  1. trip-sitting
  2. trip-switch
  3. trip-switches
  4. trip-trap
  5. trip-trapped
  6. trip-trapping
  7. trip-traps
  8. tripack
  9. tripacks
  10. tripak
  11. tripaks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trip-trapping (page history and authors); trip-trap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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