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パリピ paripi
Lives for the next party.
What does paripi mean?
The English phrase party people, crushed down into three happy syllables. Loud, festive, always at somebody's event.
Example
あの子、週末はパリピらしいよ。
Apparently she's a total party animal on weekends.
Vibe
Who you can say this to, and how it lands.
Friends only Casual. Natural with friends, out of place at work or with strangers.
The story behind paripi
English came in, and Japanese did what it always does with English: chopped it to three syllables and handed it a personality. Party people became パリピ around the middle of the 2010s, when club nights, festival season and the enormous Halloween crowds in Shibuya were all peaking at once.
It is rarely a straight compliment. パリピ implies volume, a permanently high setting, and a calendar with no empty Saturdays on it. Plenty of people apply it to themselves quite cheerfully, while others use it the way you might say someone is a lot. If a パリピ invites you out, assume the night involves more than one venue.
Get paripi in your pocket
パリピ is one of 308 words in YABAI, a Japanese culture snack for Android. Every word comes with its meaning, an example sentence, a vibe check and a story like the one above — in 13 languages, read aloud by your device. Paid app: no ads, no sign-up, no subscription.
