trippy

adj

trippy

adj

/ˈtɹɪ.pi/

Etymology From trip + -y.

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 parrot, or the fish-slapping dance) flowed into the next, unpunctuated by punchlines.2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
Synonyms
lysergic, psychedelic
Derived terms
trippily, trippiness
Related terms
guilt-trippy

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