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acidhead

acidhead

9.9
A person who regularly takes drugs like LSD that change how they think and see things
  • noun
  • /ˈæsɪdˌhɛd/
  • Offensive
translation icon : acidómano (informal, ofensivo)
  • Gary was the shortest Acidhead.

Examples

  • Another Acidhead passed a newspaper to Roy.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The Acidheads had arranged their towels on their own section of the beach.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The thirteen-year-old boys, who had voted to call their group Acidheads, passed around that day's newspaper.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The Acidheads, Roy and Gary, ate their lunches in the parking lot.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • He had attached himself to Roy, the most sunburned Acidhead.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • He was known as an acidhead because he frequently attended music festivals while under the influence of LSD.

  • Many artists from the 1960s were labeled as acidheads due to their openness about using hallucinogenic drugs.

  • The documentary explored the lives of acidheads and how their drug use influenced the counterculture of the era.

Synonyms

acid head
vsacidhead
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who regularly takes LSD

is written as a single word rather than two words

Surface Forms

acidhead singular
acidheads plural

Morphology

acidhead = acid + head (transparent) = acid + head

The slang compound is directly interpretable as 'a person associated with or regularly using acid (LSD)'; the components map straightforwardly.

Etymology

Acidhead comes from acid, a slang name for LSD, and head, meaning 'a person who is into something a lot', like pothead. It became common in the 1960s for people who often took LSD, so today it means someone who regularly uses drugs that change the way they see or feel.