trip-trap

alternative triptrap · alternative trip trap

1. Representing the sound of walking on a hard surface.

   First of all came the youngest Billy-goat, and was going over the bridge. Trip trap, trip trap, went the bridge. "Who is that tripping over my bridge?" shouted the troll.

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 141

present singular third person trip-traps · participle present trip-trapping · participle past trip-trapped · past trip-trapped · alternative triptrap · alternative trip trap

1. intransitiveTo make stomping or tapping noises while walking or running.

   Ramona trip-trapped joyfully all the way to the parked car, and when she reached home she trip-trapped up and down the hall and all around the house.

   2002, Beverly Cleary, The Best of Ramona

2. raretransitiveTo cause one to trip-trap.

   Her lips parted, Freeman was suddenly triptrapping, no, she was triptrapping him, and then they were triptrapping together […]

   2014, Scott Nicholson, The Home: A Supernatural Thriller