acid freak

acid freak
n
a user, especially a heavy or habitual user, of the drug LSD. The terms are not pejorative and were used from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s by takers of LSD or other hallucinogens about them-selves and each other.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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