trippy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

trip +‎ -y

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪ.pi/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪpi

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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.

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  • Spanish: tripi

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