Green’s Dictionary of Slang

see mind-bender n. (3)

see separate entries .

see mind-blower n.

see separate entries .

see mind-bending adj.

a psychedelic or psychotropic drug.

1969		R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970) 178: mind detergent, the lsd.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 15: Mind detergent — LSD.

see mind-bender n. (2)

see separate entries .

see mind-bending adj.

see mind-bender n. (3)

1. (also mind-opener) a user of hallucinogens.

1969		R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970) 178: mind trippers Youths seventeen to twenty-two who use drugs for self-therapy, introspection, self-awareness, in the vaguely defined hope of becoming more creative, aware, loving, etc., human beings.
1971		E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972) 133: mind opener [...] mind tripper [...] User of LSD.

2. (US campus/teen) someone seen as eccentric, odd, abnormal.

1975

G. Underwood ‘Razorback Sl.’ in AS L:1/2 62: mind tripper n Person considered strange or weird.

to think clearly, to agree with.

1965		D. Pearce Cool Hand Luke (1967) 177: Have you got your mind right, Luke? [...] Are you sure, Luke? You ain’t gonna backslide on me are yuh? You sure your mind’s right?
1971		D. Goines Dopefiend (1991) 57: You better get your mind right, boy.

(W.I.) to be strongly inclined to do something (usu. rash).

1975

cited in Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage (1996).

(W.I.) to possess courage, to be brave.

1969

cited in Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage (1996).

(US black) to manipulate someone’s mind, usu. for negative purposes.

1967, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS 748/1: take [someone’s] mind To disturb someone, to upset someone psychologically; to obsess someone Mainly Negro and beat use.
1968		‘Hy Lit’ Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 39: take one’s mind – Mess someone’s mind, confuse him completely.