tripe

3 definitions found

tripe - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tripe \Tripe\, n. [OE. tripe, F. tripe; of uncertain origin; cf.
     Sp. & Pg. tripa, It. trippa, OD. tripe, W. tripa, Armor.
     stripen.]
     1. The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for
        food.
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              How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled ? --Shak.
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     2. The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly;
        -- generally used in the plural. --Howell.
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tripe - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tripe
      n 1: lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine)
           used as food
      2: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish,
         tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce,
         codswallop]

tripe - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "tripe":
     abatis, abdomen, anus, appendix, baloney, bilge, blah, blah-blah,
     blind gut, bop, bosh, bowels, brain, brains, bull, bullshit, bunk,
     bunkum, cecum, chitterlings, cockscomb, colon, crap, duodenum,
     endocardium, entrails, flapdoodle, foregut, gas, giblets, gizzard,
     guff, gup, guts, haslet, heart, hindgut, hogwash, hokum, hooey,
     hot air, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine,
     inwards, jejunum, kidney, kidneys, kishkes, large intestine, liver,
     liver and lights, lung, malarkey, marrow, midgut, moonshine,
     perineum, piffle, poppycock, pump, pylorus, rectum, rot, scat,
     shit, small intestine, spleen, stomach, sweetbread, ticker,
     tommyrot, tongue, tripes, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals,
     wind, works