electric, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

electric adj.

1. containing LSD.

1968		T. Wolfe [title] The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
1971		Current Sl. V:4 11: Electric, adj. Containing acid [...] Electric kool-aid, n. Orange juice with LSD. [Ibid.] VI 4: Electric Wine, n. Liquid containing LSD.

2. weird and wonderful, marvellous.

1973		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 2: electric [...] I’m telling you, it was really electric when that ladder started to fall.
1977		D. Powis Signs of Crime 182: Electric – Efficient, weird, sudden or marvellous.

electric chair meal (n.) [such a meal might be ordered as one’s final one prior to execution]

(US) an extreme lavish meal.

1972		Knapp Commission Report Dec. 173: William Phillips [...] , regularly patronized, with other detectives, the very best restaurants, where he received gratis what he called ‘electric-chair meals’.
1995		Independent (London) 10 June 🌐 the New York Times asked Julia Child, the cookery guru, to compose a suitable menu for a pre-electric chair meal - even weighing the merits of rival wines.
2012		https://mlpforums.com 🌐 What is your Electric Chair meal?
2021		recent-obsessions-with-jack-black 🌐 JACK BLACK gets in virtual bed with Nick and Megan to discuss the early days of Tenacious D, his electric chair meal and shares a list of his recent obsessions.

3. (UK drugs) cocaine.

2009

R. Milward Ten Storey Love Song 134: By their third snort of electric dandruff the girls are just babbling.

electric lettuce (n.)

(drugs) very potent cannabis.

2003

oldskewlrulz ‘Marijuana Message Board’ on Regina Foosball 🌐 Well, I for one, have never used electric lettuce for medicinal purposes.

electric machine (n.)

see under machine n.

electric puha (n.) [NZE puha, a form of sowthistle]

(N.Z.) marijuana, usu. homegrown.

2003

McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 73: electric puha Marijuana, usually homegrown.

electric queen (n.) [-queen sfx]

(US gay) a gay hippie n.² (3)

1972

electric soup (n.)

electric cure (n.)

(US prison) death by the electric chair.

1929		Hostetter & Beesley It’s a Racket! 224: electric cure—Death in the electric chair.
1931		D. Hammett Glass Key 551: Is there anything you haven’t been through before? Ever been given the electric cure?
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 99: give the electric cure To electrocute.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 65/2: Electric cure. Capital punishment by electrocution.
1992		Bentley & Corbett Prison Sl. 105: Electric Cure To be electrocuted.