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Hip Glossary – White Lightning
White Lightning: Last of the finest LSD available.
Hip Glossary – White Panther Party
White Panther Party: Founded by John Sinclair from Ann Arbor as a white middle class hippie movement to support the Black Panthers.
Hip Glossary – Whole Earth Catalog
Whole Earth Catalog: Huge catalog for hippies founded, edited and published by Stewart Brand. Contained information, products, business listings, illustrations. Focused on ecology, living off the land, do-it-yourself, alternative everything. A lot of ideas and contacts done with spirit.
Hip Glossary – Wicked
Wicked: Something very good or very effective.
Hip Glossary – Tie Dye
Tie Dye: Colorful abstract artwork usually done on clothing by dying fabric by tying it together.
Hip Glossary – Tiny Tim
Tiny Tim: Famous for his hit record, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, with his shrill falsetto he became a cultural icon of the hippy movement. Popular but unattractive, the mini-ukelele playing Tim eventually found love, Miss Vicki, and got married.
Hip Glossary – Together
Together: All right. O.K. Once you sort out your problems, you’re together. “Get it together, man!”
Hip Glossary – Toke
Toke: A “hit” of marijuana. To smoke marijuana.
Hip Glossary – Tolerance
Tolerance: What results from prolonged recent use of drugs requiring one to use more to get the same effect. “I’ve built up a tolerance to LSD, now I have to take at least 500 mikes to get off.”
Hip Glossary – Trails
Trails: The visual effect usually seen while on a trip when something moves through your field a vision. It seems like multiple images of the moving object as it passes by.