"side trips" in German side trips Abstecher Detailed translations for "side trips" side trips side trips(also: digressions, tapping bars, tapping rods, tapping rakes) Abstecher{masculine plural} So it's possible he may have gone on side trips to a place called Tallahassee, for instance. Source: opensubtitles.org Corpus by OPUS Request review Es ist also möglich, dass er ein paar Abstecher gemacht hat, z.B. an einen Ort namens Tallahassee.