trippy

trippy

English

Etymology

    From trip + -y.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪ.pi/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɪpi

    Adjective

    trippy (comparative trippier, superlative trippiest)

    1. (informal) Strange, surreal, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen.
      • 1967, Jagger–Richards, “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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    Descendants

    • Spanish: tripi

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