trippy

adjective

trip·​py ˈtri-pē How to pronounce trippy (audio)
: of, relating to, or suggestive of a trip on psychedelic drugs or the culture associated with such drugs
trippy music
a trippy experience

Examples of trippy in a Sentence

The movie was full of trippy images.
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On the way, Elliott hits a baby unicorn with his rental SUV, wounding it, and Ridley touches its horn and forms a trippy spiritual connection with the creature. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025 Leonardo DiCaprio is making his Paul Thomas Anderson debut with a trippy political satire film. Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2025 Paintings-within-paintings hang on her walls in a trippy hall-of-mirrors. Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025 A couple of East Bay icons — Oakland hip-hop icon Too $hort (who executive produced and has a cameo) and former Golden State Warriors’ Sleepy Floyd (played by Ellis and who also has a cameo) — get involved in trippy face-offs and square-offs. Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trippy

Word History

First Known Use

1968, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of trippy was in 1968

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“Trippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trippy. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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