trip·py

(trĭp′ē)

adj. trip·pi·er, trip·pi·est Slang

1. Of or associated with psychedelic drugs: the trippy lifestyle of the 1960s; a trippy state of mind.

2. Resembling or evoking the perceptions induced by psychedelic drugs: a swirl of bright trippy colors.

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trippy

(ˈtrɪpɪ)

adj, -pier or -piest

(Recreational Drugs) informal suggestive of or resembling the effect produced by a hallucinogenic drug

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Translations

trippy

[ˈtrɪpɪ] ADJ → flipante

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trippy

adj (inf) → ausgeflippt (inf)

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References in periodicals archive

The next paper by Sina Sarikhani relates psychedelic experience to the work of Soren Kierkegaard.

EDITORIAL

The city council of Oakland, California, unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday that decriminalizes the use of entheogenic plants, a category that includes flora such as "magic mushrooms," cactuses, and iboga, that can induce a psychedelic experience.

World & nation in 60 seconds

A psychonaut's guide to the invisible landscape: The topography of the psychedelic experience. Rochester, VT: Park Street Press.

PARA-PSYCHOLOGY, N,N-DIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE AND THE PINEAL GLAND

Leary and Alpert introduced us to the Tibetan Book of the Dead in The Psychedelic Experience. I tried to "turn on, tune in," and achieve what Leary, Alpert, and others claimed to get with psychedelics.

Trying to Groove with the GURU

With his evocative descriptions, Aki shows how traveling in India can be an overwhelming, even psychedelic experience. Everything in this ancient land is multiplied and manifold: people and things, sights and sounds, joy and suffering.

Journeys in the Kali Yuga

People are much less likely to relapse back to drinking after they've had a psychedelic experience, because they can see there's a world out there which isn't all about the bottle.

Neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt on alcohol, LSD, and getting sacked for his findings

Many, swayed by this sort of rhetoric, experimented with consciousness-expanding drugs, and in 1965 the journal ETC: A Review of General Semantics investigated the subject with a special issue on the psychedelic experience.

THE QUEST FOR INSTANT SATORI: DRUGS AND LITERARY CREATIVITY

Zacharias won't understand this, but I and many others are grateful to Kesey for setting a tone - playful, cooperative, spiritually expansive - for incorporating the psychedelic experience into our lives.

Letters in the editor's mailbag

This is his third album of this sound, however, rather than being a meaningful, psychedelic experience like he intended, it's random chaos.

7 DOWNLOADS; MICKEY McMONAGLE ON THIS WEEK'S BIG ALBUM AND SINGLE RELEASES; PICK OF THE WEEK

In Simpson's music, like a psychedelic experience, past, present and future harmoniously intertwine.

Sturgill Simpson: county music goes back to the future