trip up

verb

tripped up; tripping up; trips up

: to cause (someone) to make a mistake

He tried to trip up the cashier as she counted his change.

Examples of trip up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There’s also a 3,600W surge rating to deal with the compressor startup spikes that can trip up smaller battery systems. —Paul Lamkin, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

The Knicks turned to experienced Mike Brown, which came off like Plan B at best, but while Brown has done a masterful job in coaching to his personnel’s strengths and leading the franchise over the playoff hump that tripped up Thibs, the Mavericks flamed out and fired Kidd last week. —Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2026

But with a litany of tools, agents, and extensions now ubiquitous in nearly every profession, even experts in their field are getting tripped up by AI. —Tristan Bove, Fortune, 24 May 2026

Tensions began in the fourth inning when Contreras tried to beat out a throw on a grounder to deep third and slid head-first into first base, tripping up first baseman Kody Clemens. —Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 24 May 2026

Rhymes for trip up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup