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tripe
noun- utter nonsense; anything worthless or of poor quality, rubbish UK, 1676
Derives from “tripe” as a source of inferior food. - “I don’t know how to try.” “Don’t talk tripe.” — Geoff Brown, I Want What I Want, p. 73, 1966
- in the theatre, electrical lines dangling from overhead fixtures UK
- — Wilfred Granville, The Theater Dictionary, p. 207, 1952
- a tripod US
Used by travelling salesmen and itinerant swindlers to support a suitcase full of merchandise. - — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 280, 1981
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