: of, relating to, or suggestive of a trip on psychedelic drugs or the culture associated with such drugs
trippy music
a trippy experience
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The movie was full of trippy images.
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Dylan Faden returns to lead the sequel to Remedy's trippy 2019 entry.
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Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
That meant the party was themed to a simulation of a simulation, a trippy, irreverent-chic, multistory experience beginning with a step-and-repeat in front of a porta-potty, naturally.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
The telepathy sequences read like The Lost Weekend’s careening around a city as seen through 2001’s trippy light show.
—Literary Hub, 2 Dec. 2025
Watching the song’s polarizing music video, which uses digital trickery to reunite the surviving Beatles with their late mates, projected behind McCartney and his band on a massive screen is trippy, and hard for the brain to comprehend.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
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Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 2025
That meant the party was themed to a simulation of a simulation, a trippy, irreverent-chic, multistory experience beginning with a step-and-repeat in front of a porta-potty, naturally.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
The telepathy sequences read like The Lost Weekend’s careening around a city as seen through 2001’s trippy light show.
—Literary Hub, 2 Dec. 2025
Watching the song’s polarizing music video, which uses digital trickery to reunite the surviving Beatles with their late mates, projected behind McCartney and his band on a massive screen is trippy, and hard for the brain to comprehend.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Trippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trippy. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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