TRIP,
a Prison. He is in Trib, for Tribulation; He is laid by the Heels, or in a great deal of Trouble.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Trip in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).