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tripe

tripe

6 7.7
The inside lining of a cow's stomach that people eat
  • noun
  • /traɪp/
translation icon : tripas
  • I adore tripe and onions.
  • tripe soup
  • tripe stew
  • beef tripe

Examples

  • Tripe soup is his favorite dish.

  • Where else can you find authentic Latin goodies such as beef tripe stew and ceviche?

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  • Shall I serve the tripe now?

  • Do you want some more tripe?

  • A creative chef made a version of it for me with long-cooked shreds of tripe; it was delicious!

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  • Tripe soup.

  • But another important reason is that many cultures consider tripe soup to be the perfect easy-to-ingest hangover cure.

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  • The whorls of tripe inside this thing, the juiciness, the bounciness, the subtle flavor... wow!

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  • What you'll find in markets most often is "honeycomb" tripe, so named because it looks a helluva lot like the bees' honeycomb.

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  • For dinner, we made a delicious dish of tripe cooked in a rich tomato sauce.

Synonyms

honeycomb tripe
vstripe
  • Specialized
9.9

The edible lining of a cow's second stomach with a honeycomb texture used as food

refers to the edible stomach lining generally and not only one stomach chamber

Idioms

full of tripe
  • Archaic
8.6

Ideas or statements that are mostly nonsense and have little worth

9.5

Words or ideas that are complete nonsense and worthless

Compounds

honeycomb tripe
  • Specialized
9.9

The edible lining of a cow's second stomach with a honeycomb texture used as food

9.2

A cooked dish of cow stomach and onions that has a strong taste

Surface Forms

tripe singular
tripes plural

Etymology

Tripe comes from an old word for the animal 'stomach' lining that people eat, often in soups or stews. So today tripe still means that eaten 'stomach' lining used in cooking.