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tripe Definition

tripe (trīp)

noun

  1. part of the stomach of an ox or other ruminant, when used as food
  2. Slang anything worthless, offensive, etc.; nonsense

Etymology: ME < MFr < It trippa, prob. ult. < Ar tharb, thin layer of fat lining the intestines

tripe Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • write: Does the University of Texas at Dallas pay you to write ignorant political tripe?
  • eat: I'm not spending half my life eating tripe to give you lot free entertainment.
  • include: In the meantime it was decided to consult on the basis that the banned offal would include tripe.
  • watch: But, hell, if someone else wants to watch tripe, what do I care?
  • produce: They are found naturally in organically produced tripe and uncontaminated fatty fish and Savoy cabbage.
  • spout: Anyone trying to spout tripe about Pagans being Satan worshipers would be seen for the frauds they are.

Adjective modifier

  • utter: It's utter tripe to suggest that terrestrial channels are driving digital take-up even for Freeview.
  • usual: Due to an irritating thing called work, no time today for the usual tripe about the weekend's performance.
  • old: This was of course, a load of old tripe.
  • absolute: We took them all to the cinema first ( Spongebob Squarepants - absolute tripe, although the kids enjoyed it!
  • complete: I can tell you now with absolute certainty, nobody in the whole county of Lincolnshire comes out with more complete tripe than me.

Modifies a noun

  • shop: Opposite the pub was a tripe shop owned by my father's parents.
  • sausage: Sausages are common, most of which are made from pork, but look out for the specialty spicy tripe sausages!
  • soup: Typical recipe: Tripe soup Proverb: Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
  • dresser: Sanderson's tripe dressers in Carter Gate had a shop in Upper Parliament Street, opposite the top of Queen Street.
  • recipe: There is hardly anything in it, apart from the tripe recipes, that I don't fancy cooking.

Noun used with modifier

  • miserabilist: They're kind of filed away in my brain alongside Placebo, whiny miserabilist indie tripe with vaguely goth leanings.
  • indie: They're kind of filed away in my brain alongside Placebo, whiny miserabilist indie tripe with vaguely goth leanings.
tripe Quotes

[Jeremy] Bentham held no post at the mercy of bankers and tripe sellers; he was a man of independent means, a lawyer and politician and a heretic in general practice. It is impossible to imagine such a man occupying a chair at Harvard or Princeton.Hehad a hand intoomany pies; he was too rebellious and contumacious; he had too little respect for authority, either academic or worldly. Moreover, his mind was too wide for a professor; he Mencken could never remain safely in a groove; the whole field of social organization invited his inquiries and experiments.

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great Chieftain o'the Puddin-race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thairm: Weel are ye wordy of a grace As lang's myarm.

—Burns, Robert