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Tripper   /trˈɪpər/   Listen
Tripper

noun
1.
(slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations.
2.
A walker or runner who trips and almost falls.  Synonym: stumbler.
3.
A tourist who is visiting sights of interest.  Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, sightseer.
4.
A catch mechanism that acts as a switch.  Synonym: trip.





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"Tripper" Quotes from Famous Books



... the full season at Cairo. The wealth and fashion of Bayswater, South Kensington, and even the bosky Wood of the Evangelist had sent their latest luxury and style to flout the tombs of the past with the ghastly flippancy of to-day. The cheap tripper was there—the latest example of the Darwinian theory—apelike, flea and curio hunting! Shamelessly inquisitive and always hungry, what did he know of the Sphinx or the pyramids or the voice—and, for the matter of that, what did ...
— New Burlesques • Bret Harte
... depth; when the vessel dropped to that depth the ballast tanks were automatically opened and every ounce of water expelled. As a result the submarine would shoot to the surface. The older "submarine salts" called the safety the "tripper." ...
— The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet • James R. Driscoll


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