Usually means: Lost balance, fell over unexpectedly.
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  1. tripped: Merriam-Webster
  2. tripped: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tripped: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tripped: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tripped, tripped: Wordnik
  6. tripped: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tripped: Wiktionary
  8. tripped: Dictionary.com
  9. tripped: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Tripped: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Tripped: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tripped: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. tripped: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tripped: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See trip as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (trip)

noun:  A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
noun:  A stumble or misstep.
noun:  (figurative, archaic) An error; a failure; a mistake.
noun:  (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
noun:  (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
noun:  A faux pas, a social error.
noun:  (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
noun:  (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
noun:  A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
noun:  The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
noun:  (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
verb:  (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
verb:  (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
verb:  (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
verb:  (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
verb:  Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
verb:  (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
verb:  (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
verb:  (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
verb:  (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
verb:  (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
verb:  (slang, African-American Vernacular) To act foolishly or irrationally.
adjective:  (poker slang) Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).
noun:  (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
noun:  (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
noun:  A flock of wigeons.
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