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How to spell trip

Trip is spelled T-R-I-P. The part people get wrong: one P.

What it means: A journey to a place and back.

In a sentence: We went on a fun trip to the zoo! ▶

Same family: tripping, tripped, acid-trip, bad-trip, hallucinate. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The drug-related sense of "trip" developed in the 1960s from the older meaning of a journey, comparing the intense mental experience of hallucinogenic drugs to going on a strange inner "trip."

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