Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the lack of female company.

1989

H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 272: It has been reported that military personnel stationed in Hawaii during World War II suffered grievously from lackanookie, also called lackanookemia or ‘that old Hawaiian disease’ (AS, 12/47).

2. (gay) being homosexual, i.e. the lack of women [from sense 1, but also Hawaii’s large homosexual population].

1986–7

Maledicta IX 56: Hawaiian disease n [R] Absence of women, or ‘lakanuki’; homosexual slang.

(gay) the anus.

1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.
1986–7		Maledicta IX 56: Hawaiian eye n [R] Anus; homosexual slang.

(drugs) LSD.

1977		S.N. Pradhan Drug Abuse.
1982		AS LVII:4 289: When LSD is mixed with other drugs [...] [s]uch mixtures are today called [...] Hawaiian sunshine.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 11: Hawaiian sunshine — LSD.