trippy

English

Etymology

From trip +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪ.pi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪpi

Adjective

trippy (comparative trippier, superlative trippiest)

1. (informal) Strange, surreal, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen.
   • 1967, Jagger–Richards (lyrics and music), “Something Happened to Me Yesterday”, in Between the Buttons, performed by The Rolling Stones:

     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.

   • 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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 parrot, or the fish-slapping dance) flowed into the next, unpunctuated by punchlines.

Synonyms

• lysergic
• psychedelic

Related terms

• guilt-trippy

 

Descendants

• → Spanish: tripi

Translations

strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen

• Esperanto: psikedela
• German: trippig, abgedreht (de), abgefahren (de), bizarr (de), berauschend (de)