Definitions for tripe

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Spelling: [trahyp]
IPA: /traɪp/

Tripe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in tripe (eiprt).

Definitions for tripe

noun

  1. the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food. Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
  2. Slang. something, especially speech or writing, that is false or worthless; rubbish.

Origin of tripe

1250-1300; 1885-90 for def 2; Middle English Old French

Examples for tripe

Let them boil up, and add them to the tripe just before you send it to table.

On two nights in the week, tripe was sold in the town ready dressed.

Cats were purring on the counters of the fruit store and the tripe shop.

tripe may be cooked more economically by substituting water for milk.

It was in the tripe market that they had made the acquaintance of Claude Lantier.

The insipid odour of the meat, the pungent smell of the tripe exasperated him.

Jenkins invited me to supper; tripe and onions; and I'd like to know what it all means, and where the supper is.

Boil the tripe, but not quite tender; then put it into salt and water, which must be changed every day till it is all used.

The word “tripe” conjures up some not-so-pleasing connotations.

These seemingly disparate countries count on a tripe soup to ease the pain of a hangover.

Word Value for tripe
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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