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

But the business got tripped up with overexpansion and brand mismanagement in recent years. —Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune Europe, 17 Apr. 2024

On the busy rail corridor running through northwest Atlanta, there was a notorious stretch of track known for tripping up engineers. —Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2023

Congress is beginning the week without a deal to avert a partial government shutdown by Friday's deadline -- as funding for the Department of Homeland Security trips up negotiations. —Lauren Peller, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024

Each successive Green 3-pointer just served as another dagger to the heart of a hearty Los Gatos contingent who made the trip up 880 to Oakland. —Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024

Just take a trip up to the Signature Room restaurant and bar to take in the Hancock Tower's lake and city views over cocktails or a buffet brunch. —Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024

Don’t get tripped up by the passion-inflaming, anti-woke rhetoric. —Carol J. Petty, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024

But Dallas — though not in the same circumstances — got whacked 26-6 by Washington at FedEx Field a year ago in the regular-season finale, and the memory of that game and what's at stake now is plenty of fuel not to trip up this time. —Stephen Whyno, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024

In particular, the city of Brno subsidizes with 0,8€ per trip up to 2 trips per day of 30 minutes on bike sharing per user, dedicating EUR 2 million per year in the first pilot year and EUR 2.4 million this year to the highly successful project. —Regina Clewlow, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024