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tripe

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tripe  (trp)
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.]

tripe [traɪp]
n
1. (Cookery) the stomach lining of an ox, cow, or other ruminant, prepared for cooking
2. Informal something silly; rubbish
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) (plural) Archaic informal intestines; belly
[from Old French, of unknown origin]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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"

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.
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
tripe [ˈtraɪp] n
(COOKERY)tripes fpl
(pejorative) (= rubbish) → idioties fpl
tripe
n
(Cook) → Kaldaunen pl, → Kutteln pl (S Ger, Aus, Sw)
(fig inf)Quatsch m, → Stuss m (inf)
tripe [traɪp] n (Culin) → trippa (fam, pej) (rubbish) → sciocchezze fpl, fesserie fpl
tripe [traɪp] n (Culin) → trippa (fam, pej) (rubbish) → sciocchezze fpl, fesserie fpl


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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.
 
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