A covert word for LSD. The word's origins are believed to be from the San Francisco Bay Area, ca: 1972. Gumboplex is a combination of two root-word forms. 1) Gumbo is a soup or stew, or alternately a very slick mud. This word invokes the soupy (or alternately slippery) nature of perceptions under the drug’s psychotropic influence. 2) Plex, the second part of this compound word derives from perplexed. This part also relies on its similarity to the word flex, as in flexible. The word play on perplexed and flexible underscores the highly subjective and variable nature of emotions and perceptions attendant to the LSD experience. Gumboplex is a noun that can be “verbed”.
I seem to remember that he'd had some gumboplex and showed up at that concert with big black shiny pupils.
I remember this time when we were completely gumboplexed at the beach and spent hours looking at starfish in the tidepools.
I remember this time when we were completely gumboplexed at the beach and spent hours looking at starfish in the tidepools.
by Civilshop July 7, 2012