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trip trap

trip trap is the alternative form 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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Forms of trip trap

third-person singular presenttrip traps
present participletrip trapping
past participletrip trapped
pasttrip trapped

Questions about trip trap

What is trip trap the alternative form of?
Trip trap is the alternative form of trip-trap.

Words near trip trap in the dictionary

  1. trip the light fantastic toe
  2. trip tic
  3. trip tics
  4. trip to Jerusalem
  5. trip to the woodshed
  6. trip trap
  7. trip trapped
  8. trip trapping
  9. trip traps
  10. trip up
  11. trip wire

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trip trap (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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