# trips

Pronunciation: say "TRIPS" /tɹɪps/

## Noun

1. Plural of trip. — plural of trip
   - Simple: Plural of trip. Use this form when you mean more than one trip.
   - _The agency arranged several trips for the students._
   - _Both trips were canceled because of the storm._
3. Three of a kind in poker, especially when one of the matching cards is in the player's hand and the other two lie on the board. *(slang)*
   - Simple: In a card game, three cards of the same value, usually one in your hand and two on the table.
   - _He turned trips when a third king appeared among the community cards._
   - _Nobody read her for trips until she shoved on the river._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present of trip. — third-person singular simple present indicative of trip
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of trip. Use it with he, she, or it.
   - _The dog trips over its own paws when it gets excited._
   - _The sensor trips the alarm the moment the door opens._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/trips (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).