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

Transportation is where a lot of first-time visitors get tripped up. —Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026

The haters are going to have to try much harder to trip up Jaxson Dart and Marissa Ayers. —Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026

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

Rhymes for trip up

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