trippy
Americanadjective
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evoking a feeling reminiscent of the altered state produced by psychedelic drugs.
The festival features a trippy animated display that changes over the course of the day.
Upcoming listening sessions include some ambient, trippy electronica.
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strange or weird.
It’s trippy to finally complete a story that you started decades ago.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of trippy
First recorded in 1965–70; trip 1 ( def. ) (in the sense “euphoria experienced under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs”) + -y 1 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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It wasn't the fact Scotland had now secured a bonus point in a game they were supposed to lose or that they were 18 points clear of a heavily fancied England, as trippy as that was.
From BBC
Architect Jean Nouvel hollowed out the 19th-century Haussmann building to easily adapt tech-heavy immersive installations, including a typically trippy James Turrell.
In Las Vegas, guests enter a trippy grocery store complete with parodies of household items before finding their way to the main exhibition space.
From Los Angeles Times
With his team, the Gang of Outlaws, Bloch built vehicles such as the Trippy Tippy Hippy Van, a 1976 Volkswagen bus flipped on its side and turned into a racing car, and his Speedy’s Weenies, a hot-dog stand welded onto a Suzuki SUV and turned into a racer.
Her impossible, dreamlike vistas put a trippy, esoteric spin on familiar devotional motifs while entering into a conversation with the history of art.
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