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tripe

/tɹaɪp/

tripe noun: the lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.

tripe: the lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food
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Noun (1)

tripe (usually uncountable, plural tripes)

  1. (usually) The lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
    • You saw only your mother die. I see them pop off every day in the Mater and Richmond and cut up into tripes in the dissectingroom.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
    • Tripe: A popular dish commonly believed to be a sexual stimulant.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 237
  2. (in plural, usually) The entrails; (by extension, humorous or derogatory) the belly.
    • Next morning Miss Dolly complained of her Tripes; / Drinking cold water had given her gripes.quoted in 2013, W. T. Fernie, Animal Simples: Approved for Modern Uses of Cure (page 352)
  3. (derogatory, figuratively, usually) Something foolish or valueless, especially written works and popular entertainment (movies, television).
    • No, I'm not kidding. Professor, Broadway stands for a lot of baloney; but, it will never digest a piece of tripe like this!1932, Clarence Budington Kelland, Speak Easily, spoken by Stage Director (Sidney Toler)
    • We believe that the purpose of science is to serve mankind. You, however, seem to regard science as some kind of dodge… or hustle. Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy, and your conclusions are highly questionable! You are a poor scientist, Dr. Venkman!1984, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ghostbusters, spoken by Dean Yeager (Jordan Charney)
  4. (usually) An edible lichen, especially rock tripe.

Interjection

tripe

  1. (derogatory) That (what has just been said) is untrue.

Noun (2) capitalized: Tripe

Tripe (plural Tripes)

  1. (dated, slang) Synonym of Tripehound (“Sopwith Triplane”).
    Synonyms:
    Tripehound

tripe meaning in Malayalam, Arabic, Indonesian and Persian

tripe in Malayalam

nonsense, gibberish, rubbish
അസംബന്ധം, ശുദ്ധഅസംബന്ധം, അപാർത്ഥം, അർത്ഥമില്ലാത്തത്, ചവറ്, വിലകെട്ട സാഹിത്യരചന

tripe in Arabic

stomach lining of animal for food
كرشة kirša

tripe in Indonesian

stomach lining of animal for food
babat

tripe in Persian

stomach lining of animal for food
شکمبه šekambe, سیرابی sirâbi
More languagesFewer languages
tripe in Thai
ผ้าขี้ริ้ว pâa kêe ríw
tripe in Vietnamese
dạ dày, chuyện nhảm nhí, ruột
tripe in Myanmar
ကလီစာ ka.lica

Examples of tripe in a sentence

  • Johnson as “sexist, misogynist, tripe,” and prompted more than 5,500 complaints, according to the independent regulator of most of Britain’s newspapers and magazines.2022 April 26, Stephen Castle, Megan Specia, quoting Boris Johnson, “U.K. Tabloid Accuses Lawmaker of ‘Basic Instinct’ Move, Highlighting...
  • And just because leftoids make tripe from their position of strength is no reason for trads to make schlock from their position of weakness.2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2025:

All 18 example sentences with tripe

Synonyms of tripe

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Forms of tripe

pluraltripes
pluralTripes

Plural of tripe: tripes

Origin of tripe

From Middle English tripe, from Old French tripe (“entrails”), of uncertain origin; possibly borrowed from Spanish tripa.

Words formed from tripe

Phrases with tripe

Words that rhyme with tripe

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Questions about tripe

What does tripe mean?
Tripe means the lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
What is tripe in Malayalam?
Tripe in Malayalam is അസംബന്ധം, ശുദ്ധഅസംബന്ധം, അപാർത്ഥം. See Tripe meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use tripe in a sentence?
Johnson as “sexist, misogynist, tripe,” and prompted more than 5,500 complaints, according to the independent regulator of most of Britain’s newspapers and magazines.
What part of speech is tripe?
Tripe can be a noun or an interjection.
How do you pronounce tripe?
Tripe is pronounced /tɹaɪp/.
What is the plural of tripe?
The plural of tripe is tripes.

Words near tripe in the dictionary

  1. Tripathis
  2. tripcock
  3. tripcocks
  4. tripcode
  5. tripcodes
  6. tripe
  7. tripe and onions
  8. tripe de roche
  9. tripedal
  10. tripedaliid
  11. tripedally

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tripe (page history and authors); Tripe (page history and authors); tripe (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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