"trippy" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈtɹɪ.pi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-trippy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: trippier [comparative], trippiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪpi Etymology: trip + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|trip|y}} trip + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} trippy (comparative trippier, superlative trippiest)
  1. (informal) Strange, surreal, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen. Tags: informal Synonyms: lysergic, psychedelic Related terms: guilt-trippy Translations (strange; similar to the effects of a hallucinogen): psikedela (Esperanto), trippig (German), abgedreht (German), abgefahren (German), bizarr (German), berauschend (German)
    Sense id: en-trippy-en-adj-npSjF50O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for trippy meaning in English (3.4kB)

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