Lid: A bag of grass, usually about an ounce (28 grams).

Light Shows: A visual performance accompanying music at clubs and concert venues using strobes, film, video, special effects and more recently lasers. Andy Warhol put on some famous light shows in NYC.

Love beads: Love beads were orginally made from small seeds. They came in numerous patterns, and were given as gifts between friends or made by the wearer. They were a common sign of friendship.

Love-In: Like a Be-In it was a reason to get together with other hippies and have fun. Loving everyone and everything was the general theme of the event. Usually accompanied by live music, readings by poets, and lots of psychedelic drugs.

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Lude: A Quaalude, a depressant drug.

Jay: A joint.

Maintain: To keep one’s shit together. “Every since my babe left me I’m finding it hard to maintain.”

Make Love Not War!: Slogan that sums up the hippie attitude. Appeared on signs and buttons during protests against Vietnam War.

Mamas and Papas: Popular group in the sixties. John Phillips, Denny, (Mama) Cass Elliot, and Michelle Phillips sang California Dreaming, Monday, Monday, Creeque Alley.