trippy

[trip-ee]

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.

trippy

/ ˈtrɪpɪ /

adjective

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

Word 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. )

Example Sentences

Get lost in the Santa Monica Pier’s trippy fun house.

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“That’s actually one of the most trippy things,” Krivchenia says, “where it’s like, ‘Real love!’’’ — referencing the refrain from the band’s second-ever single, from 2016 — “and I’ll just be, like, peeing in a Panera in Ohio.”

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Riperton met Rudolph in a stairwell of the rock club he was managing — “It was one of those moments you see in the movies,” he says now — and the two quickly fell in love; Rudolph began writing songs with Stepney for what became Riperton’s solo debut, 1970’s ornately trippy “Come to My Garden,” which Stepney produced.

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Other high-profile titles from international festivals include Luca Guadagnino’s campus drama “After the Hunt,” Kleber Mendonça Filho’s political thriller “The Secret Agent,” Bi Gan’s trippy drama “Resurrection” and Radu Jude’s updated “Dracula.”

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Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and his mouse-eared cartoonish alter ego, Mr. DOB, landed in 2022 with a parade of trippy mushroom sculptures covered in anime eyes and an 82-foot-long painting marrying traditional Taoism with modern-day manga.

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