Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid

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From each word's initial letter forming SOHCAHTOA.

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Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid

  1. (trigonometry, humorous) A mnemonic used to help people remember the different trigonometric functions: sine is opposite over hypotenuse; cosine is adjacent over hypotenuse; and tangent is opposite over adjacent.
    • 2003 March 5, “Mnemonic Devices” (chapter 9), in Marcia L. Tate, editor, Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites[1], SAGE Publications, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2024-03-20, page 93:
      Another high school teacher told me that he uses a similar acrostic, but his is as follows: Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid.
    • 2015 December 1, Eric Lindstrom, chapter 23, in Not If I See You First[2], Little, Brown Books For Young Readers, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2024-03-19:
      "It's easier with a mnemonic," Molly says. "Like… Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid—"
    • 2022 September, Jill Christman, “The Googly Eye”, in If This Were Fiction[3], archived from the original on 2024-03-20, page 92:
      [] I thought my mastery of sines, cosines, and tangents—Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid—might elevate me to another level of intellectual superiority in my high school; []

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