: 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.
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The mood is zippy; the aesthetic swings between repressed domestic formality and trippy supernatural neon.
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024
Bringing the character of Batman back to his comic book origin roots is a trippy intellectual exercise because the character is always so high-tech.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2024
Much of it is cheesy, such as an infinite-seeming gyre of dancing bears, a nightmare for us dancing-bear doubters, but some of the cheese is salvaged by cheek: a skeleton rising from a grave to ride a chopper through a trippy landscape.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
Things get extremely trippy – including the neat purple sheen that surrounds everything – but also seriously bloody as their minds and bodies are taken over by an alien presence.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024
Bringing the character of Batman back to his comic book origin roots is a trippy intellectual exercise because the character is always so high-tech.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2024
Much of it is cheesy, such as an infinite-seeming gyre of dancing bears, a nightmare for us dancing-bear doubters, but some of the cheese is salvaged by cheek: a skeleton rising from a grave to ride a chopper through a trippy landscape.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
Things get extremely trippy – including the neat purple sheen that surrounds everything – but also seriously bloody as their minds and bodies are taken over by an alien presence.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
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“Trippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trippy. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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