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comparative trippier, superlative trippiest
(informal) Strange, surreal, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen. quotations examples
Someone says there's something more to payfor sins that you committed yesterday;it's really rather drippybut something oh so trippy.Something happened to me yesterday.
1967, Jagger–Richards (lyrics and music), “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