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trippy

/ˈtɹɪ.pi/

trippy adjective: strange, surreal, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen.

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Adjective

trippy (comparative trippier, superlative trippiest)

  1. (informal) Strange, surreal, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen.
    • Someone says there's something more to pay
      for sins that you committed yesterday;
      it's really rather drippy
      but something oh so trippy.
      Something happened to me yesterday.1967, Jagger–Richards, “Something Happened to Me Yesterday”, in Between the Buttons, performed by The Rolling Stones
    • Arguably, without Jones, Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-74) would not have revolutionised British TV comedy. He was key in developing the show’s distinctively trippy, stream-of-consciousness format, where each surreal set-up (the Lumberjack Song, the upper-class twit of the year show, the dead...2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian

Synonyms of trippy

Forms of trippy

comparativetrippier
superlativetrippiest

Origin of trippy

From trip (“psychedelic trip”) + -y.

Words formed from trippy

Words that rhyme with trippy

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Questions about trippy

What does trippy mean?
Trippy means strange, surreal, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen.
What part of speech is trippy?
Trippy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce trippy?
Trippy is pronounced /ˈtɹɪ.pi/.

Words near trippy in the dictionary

  1. trippings
  2. trippist
  3. trippists
  4. trippkeite
  5. tripple
  6. trippy
  7. triprimality
  8. triprime
  9. triprimes
  10. triprismatic
  11. triprolidine

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