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

The trailer certainly paints a trippy picture of a high-tech near-future that veers into nightmare territory, as so many games in the Black Ops franchise tend to do, slipping between missions in the real-world and a psychedelic dream-world filled with demons and other nightmares. —Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025

Trending Stories Take the opening title track, which ascends a staircase of sounds — trippy synths exploding into Pat McCrory ripping on Eighties guitar, Dev Hynes on sweet cello, and Daniel Fang tearing into his drum kit. —Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2025

There is a funny trend within the trend, though: As Crain’s found, and a quick search of our own confirms, a bunch of these clinics have leased office space along a commercial strip on or just off Madison Avenue, forming a trippy little corridor around Grand Central. —Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 2 June 2025

Up in the crow’s nest, Devon embarks on a trippy journey. —Caroline Framke, Vulture, 22 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1968, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for trippy

• hippie
• hippy
• tippy