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day-trip en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of day trip.
    alt of day trip
    • I boarded my first train at Broad Street Station in 1968 for a fifth-grade class day-trip to Washington, D.C. Upon arriving in Washington, I experienced that city's monumental Union Station. 2008, Michael Mulligan, Railroad Depots of Central Florida, →ISBN, page 7:
    • Using this relationship, the day-trip changes caused by changes in travel costs can be converted to a change in the number of fishing licenses by dividing the day-trip changes (AYij) by the average day-trip per fisherman (Yij). 1988, Financing Alternatives for Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Programs:
    • My short day-trip to Chillicothe inspired a confident desire to make future journeys to signature locations throughout Ohio during 2003. 2011, Keith A. Elkins, Mr. E. 2003: Manifest Lessons from Ohio’s Bicentennial Celebration, →ISBN, page 99:

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day-trips Number=Plur lexicographic

day-trip en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To go on a one-day excursion; To visit someplace and return within a day.
    • By the end of the summer, I had day-tripped with Quita around New England and ferried to Martha's Vineyard with Carol. 2017, Melinda Worth Popham, Grace Period: My Ordination to the Ordinary, →ISBN:
    • Before I met Tommy, I would not have day-tripped to the spot where James Dean died. 2015 -, Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell, The Disaster Artist, →ISBN:
    • Been day-tripping to the market and around the city for big sun hats, sundries and sights. 1984 April 28, Loie Hayes, “Passionate Politics in Nicaragua”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
    • From Polly, we day-tripped to Koma and Malberg under a gorgeous blue sky and then traveled up the Lady Chain to Beth, where we camped near the rock cliff next to the portage on the east shore. 2011, Stephen Wilbers, A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time, →ISBN:

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day-tripped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
day-tripped Tense=Past lexicographic
day-trips Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
day-tripping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic