: 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
The singer and his band slid into a groove early on, and rode the wave throughout the set, taking the audience on a sonic journey tinged with cumbia, psychedelic rock, and trippy synth melodies.
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Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
Hotel Saint Vincent is an Alice in Wonderland–style sensory whirlwind of charcoal-gray rooms with red velvet accents, 1970s-style bathrooms studded with coral tiles, and trippy marbled wallpaper, and downstairs, a Saltillo-tiled pool lined with striped loungers.
—Kate Donnelly, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2023
The trippy action-fantasy, about a humble laundromat owner who becomes a metaphysical superhero, marked a watershed on many levels, not least as evidence of an ongoing generational transfer of cinematic capital that threatens to reduce movies to little more than a self-iterating monoculture.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
On the other end of the hatch isn’t the Dharma Initiative, but rather a trippy view of a 1990s mall.
—Radhika Menon, ELLE, 15 Apr. 2023
In the clip, the musical duo are chained to a structure along with a number of others who also feel alone in the world, unable to break free as the camera fans to dark, trippy shots of the two trading verses.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023
This winter, the Standard hotel in New York’s East Village opened a trippy outdoor dining garden with oversized mushroom sculptures (the prix fixe dinner menu has some fungi options, including a mushroom ragù lasagna and mushroom chili Frito pie).
—Anna Kodé, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
Sally sings a solo while other characters go for a spacewalk, and Schroder’s classical piano solo turns into a trippy intergalactic scene.
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
The 289-footer, known as Pegasus, features a low, linear hull, a plumb bow and a trippy metallic finish that camouflages it with the surrounding environment.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2023
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Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
Hotel Saint Vincent is an Alice in Wonderland–style sensory whirlwind of charcoal-gray rooms with red velvet accents, 1970s-style bathrooms studded with coral tiles, and trippy marbled wallpaper, and downstairs, a Saltillo-tiled pool lined with striped loungers.
—Kate Donnelly, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2023
The trippy action-fantasy, about a humble laundromat owner who becomes a metaphysical superhero, marked a watershed on many levels, not least as evidence of an ongoing generational transfer of cinematic capital that threatens to reduce movies to little more than a self-iterating monoculture.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
On the other end of the hatch isn’t the Dharma Initiative, but rather a trippy view of a 1990s mall.
—Radhika Menon, ELLE, 15 Apr. 2023
In the clip, the musical duo are chained to a structure along with a number of others who also feel alone in the world, unable to break free as the camera fans to dark, trippy shots of the two trading verses.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023
This winter, the Standard hotel in New York’s East Village opened a trippy outdoor dining garden with oversized mushroom sculptures (the prix fixe dinner menu has some fungi options, including a mushroom ragù lasagna and mushroom chili Frito pie).
—Anna Kodé, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
Sally sings a solo while other characters go for a spacewalk, and Schroder’s classical piano solo turns into a trippy intergalactic scene.
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
The 289-footer, known as Pegasus, features a low, linear hull, a plumb bow and a trippy metallic finish that camouflages it with the surrounding environment.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1968, in the meaning defined above
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“Trippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trippy. Accessed 21 Sep. 2023.
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