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

Buying the adventure policy doesn't clear all of that away, which trips up a lot of travelers. — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

The intricacies of state voter ID laws, student voting advocates point out, can trip up many of the country's least experienced voters. — Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 17 Aug. 2026

Search engines, screen readers, copy/paste tools, and translation software can all get tripped up by the altered HTML, making the page a little less useful to your intended audience. — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026

Johnson made the short trip up the highway to Columbia to craft the menu and launch operations at Ladder 13. — Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for trip up

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