: 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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The album is available for pre-order now, including a trippy cantaloupe orange/pink vinyl variant.
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Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2025
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
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Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2025
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
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“Trippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trippy. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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