tripe

noun

1
: stomach tissue especially of a ruminant (such as an ox) used as food
2
: something poor, worthless, or offensive

Examples of tripe in a Sentence

That's just a load of tripe. it's shocking that an esteemed newspaper like this one would publish such tripe
Recent Examples on the Web Felicity Blunt’s odd way of making potatoes and the time Meryl Streep dug into a plate of tripe sausage that apparently looked a lot like a horse phallus. Shannon Carlin, TIME, 15 July 2024 Rodricks brings up the overused tripe about our immigration system being broken. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2024 First, the soup bases: Ben Ben is really promoting its pork tripe and chicken version, which comes default not-spicy, but there’s also an ox-tail base, a beef-rib base and a Golden Palace Fish Maw and Chicken base. John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024 Usually, said Bacolod, the dish includes a variety of meats, like honeycomb tripe, beef oxtail and short ribs. Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for tripe 

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Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Anglo-French

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of tripe was in the 14th century

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Cite this Entry

“Tripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tripe. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.

Kids Definition

tripe

noun
1
: stomach tissue of a cud-chewing animal (as a cow) used as food
2
: something poor, worthless, or ridiculous

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