TRIP LINE Definition & Meaning

trip line

noun

(in lumbering) a line for freeing a dog hook from a log at a distance.
haulback.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of trip line¹

First recorded in 1900–05

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KRDO-TV reported Wednesday that the bicyclists were recently riding across a bridge on the Rock Island Trail when their bikes hit a trip line.

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Warren’s ethnic heritage has long been a partisan trip line.

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Invisible to the two men, a trip line joined the box to a yard sign, apparently stolen from another location in the neighborhood.

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The next EpiPen crisis is no doubt in the making, with patients already suffering from inexplicable rising prices for a much-needed drug, until that trip line of outrage is once again crossed.

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