acidhead

Frequent trip taker

An acidhead is a habitual user of LSD (acid).

The term emerged from 1960s counterculture alongside similar formations like pothead and deadhead.

It carries connotations of someone whose personality or worldview has been shaped by psychedelic experience: He's been an acidhead since the Summer of Love.

counterculture

hippie

Sixties counterculture member

flower child · commune · dropout · Grateful Dead · psychedelic rock · tie-dye · peace movement · free love · consciousness expansion · beatnik

drugculture

tripper

One taking a jaunt

  • userOne who operates something
  • burnoutChronic occupational depletion
  • junkiePerson with compulsive dependency

stoner · hippie · druggie · pothead · doper · dopehead · freak · dropout · dealer · pusher

psychedelic

LSD

Psychedelic hallucinogen

  • tripPlanned travel somewhere
  • doseQuantity of medicine
  • blotterPorous paper sheet

tab · microdose · lysergic · hallucinogen · mind-expanding · altered states · ego dissolution · set and setting · peak experience · comedown

hallucination

visions

Imagined or prophetic sights

  • tripPlanned travel somewhere
  • tracersPath-revealing projectiles
  • visualsPictorial content collectively

distortion · warped · morphing · kaleidoscope · afterimage · flicker · shimmer · colors · patterns · melting

Categories
Opposites
sobriety and drug use

acidheadteetotaler

Complete abstainer from liquor

straight edge · abstainer · non-user · prohibitionist · temperance advocate

countercultural identity

acidheadsquare

Rhombus with right angles

straight · conformist · suit · company man · narc

Family

head, acid, acidic, acidity, headlong, antacid, behead, acidify, acidosis

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