ˈtrīp noun
( -s )
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French
1.
a. : a wall of the stomach of a ruminant and especially of the ox used as an article of food:
(1) : the walls of the paunch or rumen — called also plain tripe
(2) : the walls of the reticulum resembling honeycomb in form — called also honeycomb tripe
b. : an individual piece or portion of such a part of the stomach
eaten … sheep tripes dipped in honey — Stephen Longstreet
ox tripes are selected for good color and condition from ox stomachs — New Zealand Journal of Agric.
2. archaic : belly 1a
he hath his tripe full — James Howell
3. : entrail 2 — usually used in plural
shooting a man or cutting his tripes out — Joyce Cary
felt a seasick rising of his tripes — Eric Linklater
4. archaic : a worthless or inferior and usually disgusting person
5. : something that is poor, worthless, and often offensive : inferior stuff : second-rate material : nonsensical rubbish : trash
calling the report a mess of tripe — C.E.Montague
the mass of popular-science tripe dished out to the American public — J.R.Newman
get a little easy money by writing tripe — Bennett Cerf