trippy

American  

[trip-ee] / ˈtrɪp i /

adjective

Informal.

1. 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.

2. strange or weird.

   It’s trippy to finally complete a story that you started decades ago.

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trippy British  

/ ˈtrɪpɪ /

adjective

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

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Etymology

Origin of trippy

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

Example Sentences

In Las Vegas, guests enter a trippy grocery store complete with parodies of household items before finding their way to the main exhibition space.

From Los Angeles Times

With his team, the Gang of Outlaws, Bloch built vehicles such as the Trippy Tippy Hippy Van, a 1976 Volkswagen bus flipped on its side and turned into a racing car, and his Speedy’s Weenies, a hot-dog stand welded onto a Suzuki SUV and turned into a racer.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her impossible, dreamlike vistas put a trippy, esoteric spin on familiar devotional motifs while entering into a conversation with the history of art.

From The Wall Street Journal

“They rumble through time. We’re just putting a little bit of paint on some here and there, and maybe a little bit of echo and little bit of that sort of trippy stuff.”

From Los Angeles Times

Before it all started to get trippy, Scotland were losing 3-0 and Denmark were winning 1-0, a series of results that made Scottish hopes of automatic qualification a dead duck.

From BBC