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tripe

 (trīp)
n.
1. The rubbery lining of the stomach of cattle or other ruminants, used as food.
2. Informal Something of no value; rubbish.

[Middle English, from Old French tripes, intestines, tripe.]
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tripe

(traɪp)
n
1. (Cookery) the stomach lining of an ox, cow, or other ruminant, prepared for cooking
2. informal something silly; rubbish
3. (Anatomy) (plural) archaic informal intestines; belly
[C13: from Old French, of unknown origin]
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tripe

(traɪp)

n.
1. the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, esp. oxen or sheep used as food.
2. Slang. something, esp. speech or writing, that is false or worthless.
[1250–1300; Middle English < Old French]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.tripe - lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food
organs, variety meat - edible viscera of a butchered animal
honeycomb tripe - lining of the reticulum (or second stomach) of a ruminant used as food
2.tripe - nonsensical talk or writing
drivel, garbage - a worthless message
jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
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tripe

noun (Informal) nonsense, rot, trash, twaddle, balls (taboo slang), bull (slang), rubbish, shit (taboo slang), pants (slang), crap (slang), garbage (informal), bullshit (taboo slang), hot air (informal), tosh (slang, chiefly Brit.), bollocks (Brit. taboo slang), pap, cobblers (Brit. taboo slang), bilge (informal), drivel, guff (slang), moonshine, claptrap (informal), hogwash, hokum (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), piffle (informal), poppycock (informal), inanity, balderdash, bosh (informal), eyewash (informal), trumpery, tommyrot, foolish talk, horsefeathers (U.S. slang), bunkum or buncombe (chiefly U.S.) I've never heard such a load of tripe in all my life.
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Translations

tripe

[traɪp] N
1. (Culin) → callos mpl
2. (esp Brit) → tonterías fpl, babosadas fpl (LAm) , pendejadas fpl (LAm)
what utter tripe!¡tonterías!
he talks a lot of tripeno habla más que bobadas
3. tripes (= guts) → tripas fpl
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tripe

[ˈtraɪp] n
(COOKERY)tripes fpl
(pejorative) (= rubbish) → idioties fpl
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tripe

n
(Cook) → Kaldaunen pl, → Kutteln pl (S Ger, Aus, Sw)
(fig inf)Quatsch m, → Stuss m (inf)
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tripe

[traɪp] n (Culin) → trippa (fam, pej) (rubbish) → sciocchezze fpl, fesserie fpl
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References in classic literature ?
"Be that as it may," said Sancho, "'pledges don't distress a good payer,' and 'he whom God helps does better than he who gets up early,' and 'it's the tripes that carry the feet and not the feet the tripes;' I mean to say that if God gives me help and I do my duty honestly, no doubt I'll govern better than a gerfalcon.
Tripe it was; and Meg, in high joy, protested he should say, in half a minute more, it was the best tripe ever stewed.
The poor Cat felt very weak, and he was able to eat only thirty-five mullets with tomato sauce and four portions of tripe with cheese.
said Jurgis' friend; the things that went into the mixture were tripe, and the fat of pork, and beef suet, and hearts of beef, and finally the waste ends of veal, when they had any.
I put the crown in my drawer, and I say: 'This shall go to buy tripe at the slaughter-house of la Gloriette to-morrow.' We go up stairs.
Eggs a la tripe, au gratin, a l'Aurore, a la Dauphine, a la Poulette, a la Tartare, a la Venitienne, a la Bordelaise , and so on, and so on.
Now, Bill, knock the tripe out of him!" Her grip was as strong as a man's, and her wrist pressed like an iron bar upon the Admiral's throat.
'It's a stew of tripe,' said the landlord smacking his lips, 'and cow-heel,' smacking them again, 'and bacon,' smacking them once more, 'and steak,' smacking them for the fourth time, 'and peas, cauliflowers, new potatoes, and sparrow-grass, all working up together in one delicious gravy.' Having come to the climax, he smacked his lips a great many times, and taking a long hearty sniff of the fragrance that was hovering about, put on the cover again with the air of one whose toils on earth were over.
She got up a lunch which comprised a leg of mutton, tripe, sausages, a chicken fricassee, sweet cider, a fruit tart and some preserved prunes; then to all this the good woman added polite remarks about Madame, who appeared to be in better health, Mademoiselle, who had grown to be "superb," and Paul, who had become singularly sturdy; she spoke also of their deceased grandparents, whom the Liebards had known, for they had been in the service of the family for several generations.
"You see, I got to thinking on the way here--what if you should say tripe, or onions, or something like that, that I didn't have!
Presently the baronet plunged a fork into the saucepan on the fire, and withdrew from the pot a piece of tripe and an onion, which he divided into pretty equal portions, and of which he partook with Mrs.
In the course of five minutes after his arrival at that house of entertainment, he was enrolled among the gallant defenders of his native land; and within half an hour, was regaled with a steaming supper of boiled tripe and onions, prepared, as his friend assured him more than once, at the express command of his most Sacred Majesty the King.