Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid en · X
Etymology
From each word's initial letter forming SOHCAHTOA.
Meanings
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(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.
[…] 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; […]
2022 September, Jill Christman, “The Googly Eye”, in If This Were Fiction, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2024, page 92: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.
2003 March 5, “Mnemonic Devices” (chapter 9), in Marcia L. Tate, editor, Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2024, page 93:"It's easier with a mnemonic," Molly says. "Like… Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid—"
2015 December 1, Eric Lindstrom, chapter 23, in Not If I See You First, Little, Brown Books For Young Readers, →ISBN, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2024: