trippy en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈtɹɪ.pi/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree English trip Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English trippy From trip (“psychedelic trip”) + -y.
Meanings
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(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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| trippiest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| trippier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
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Translations (10)
es tripiante (strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen) · es tripeante (strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen) · es tripioso (strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen) · de bizarr (strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen) · de trippig (strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen) · eo psikedela (strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen) · es flipante (strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen) · de abgefahren (strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen) · de berauschend (strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen) · de abgedreht (strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen)