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

Back on Broadway 15 years after its premiere, plus another seven from when the bulk of its action is set, Jon Robin Baitz’s rich-family-with-secrets play is, in its current form, at best a trippy experience. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026

Directed by Rocky, Aisulton Seitov, and Pietro Biz Biasia, the appropriately trippy video opens with the rapper discovering the wonders of nature in a hippie wonderland, where even the old ladies knitting on park benches will take a toke. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2026

Come for the trippy time loops and strange variant worlds, stay for the exceptional acting and drama! — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Peter Max, whose trippy Day-Glo paintings came to symbolize the Flower Power era of the 1960s, died on September 18 in a hospital in New York at the age of eighty-eight. — News Desk, Artforum, 17 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1968, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for trippy

• hippie
• hippy
• tippy