garbage head

garbage head
 n.— «Soon, you become a garbage head; you take anything—downers, speed, LSD, mescaline—like, you know.» —“Be ‘Cool’ and Have Pals” by Jim Bishop News Journal (Mansfield,Ohio) Oct. 25, 1972. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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