Some Old Hippie Caught Another Hippie Tripping On Acid

English

Etymology

From each word's initial letter forming SOHCAHTOA.

Phrase

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; […]

Synonyms

• SOHCAHTOA