hippie mace
n.— «Hippie mace: A flashlight shined in the eyes of a stoned hippy.» —“Slang used by the Rainbow Family” Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Wash.) July 3, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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