trip up

phrasal 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

The company had looked to build sales by buying Michael Kors parent Capri Holdings, but was tripped up by antitrust concerns late last year. —Evan Clark, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2025

The greater length confers several advantages, including the ability to easily resolve repetitive sequences that can trip up short-read machines. —Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025

Wes Ostgaard, the hiker who summoned rescuers after finding Ortiz's body, told USA TODAY that the extreme conditions on the mountain that day could have tripped up even the most experienced climbers. —Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025

What was meant to be a quick trip up and back as a reward for saving a billionaire’s life turned into Hen and Athena’s personal Apollo 13. —Jennifer Maas, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025

Rhymes for trip up

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