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triptrap

triptrap 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 triptrap

third-person singular presenttriptraps
present participletriptrapping
past participletriptrapped
pasttriptrapped

Questions about triptrap

What is triptrap the alternative form of?
Triptrap is the alternative form of trip-trap.

Words near triptrap in the dictionary

  1. triptorelin
  2. triptote
  3. triptotes
  4. triptotic
  5. triptotical
  6. triptrap
  7. triptrapped
  8. triptrapping
  9. triptraps
  10. triptriolide
  11. Tripty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: triptrap (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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