TRIPPY Definition & Meaning

trippy

[trip-ee]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Informal.

evoking a feeling reminiscent of the altered state produced by psychedelic drugs.
The festival features a trippy animated display that changes over the course of the day.
Upcoming listening sessions include some ambient, trippy electronica.
strange or weird.
It’s trippy to finally complete a story that you started decades ago.

trippy

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adjective

informal��suggestive of or resembling the effect produced by a hallucinogenic drug

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of trippy¹

First recorded in 1965–70; trip ¹ ( def. ) (in the sense “euphoria experienced under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs”) + -y ¹ ( def. )

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Koch: It was pretty trippy, honestly, being in the courtroom and they’re talking about the case and the prosecutors are making their points.

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Like a movie DJ, Kandhari is flexing a pulpy mood of big-city dislocation, building a trippy, jarring and blackly funny experience out of a city’s stray colors, sounds and personalities.

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The penultimate episode of "The Studio" Season 1 ends on a cliffhanger, sure to provide viewers with more trippy goodness in the finale.

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This evenly delivered sobriety amid massive uncertainty is its own kind of narcotic, much in the same way that the trippy sequences in “Common Side Effects” wouldn’t be out of place on a hash bar’s video screen.

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A blend of whispering salsa, R&B and trippy pop, the album chronicled the duo’s complicated return to Puerto Rico from New York following the devastation of Hurricane Maria.

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