trippy

adjective

trip·​py ˈtri-pē 

: 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.

Recent Examples on the Web

To say anything else would be to spoil the wild ride of this series, which is outrageously inventive, often trippy, and genuinely fresh. — Chloe Benjamain, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026

The piece is like a trippy cat’s cradle, in which the dancers become colorful parts of a machine. — Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026

Best Bohemian Design For a hallway beamed straight out of Marrakech, this mosaic piece combines woods and neutrals to a trippy effect. — Nora Taylor, Architectural Digest, 23 July 2026

But the gentle vocal harmonies and trippy acoustic strumming, like the jokey title, transform the song into something else. — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1968, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for trippy

• hippie
• hippy
• tippy