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turn on
verb- to use a drug US, 1953
- — American Speech, p. 88, May 1955: “Narcotic argot along the Mexican border”
- — Lawrence Lipton, The Holy Barbarians, p. 318, 1959
- She wanted to turn on but she didn’t have any bread. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 28, 1960
- A droopy-eyed Negro hands me a tiny joint, offers what is hardly a roach now: “Turn on?” — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 185, 1963
- This sudden flash awakening is called “turning on.” — Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy, p. 14, 1963
- He had first announced to the press his intention to “turn-on” at the police station. — Los Angeles Free Press, p. 5, 24 September 1964
- — J. L. Simmons and Barry Winograd, It’s Happening, p. 173, 1966: “glossary”
- to introduce someone to something, especially drugs US
- “Bernie, do you want me to turn you on?” Zaida said. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 21, 1961
- Have to find a place though, maybe men’s room in the house. Turn Pamela on later. Wouldn’t dig it probably. — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, pp. 33–34, 1966
- “I turned on my mother,” the chick told Charles. — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 27, 1967
- Who was the first hippie? Cain. He turned on his brother Abel! — Paul Laikin, 101 Hippie Jokes, 1968
- Get high and you want to turn on the world. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 98, 1970
- A favourite game of travellers is to “turn on a Peace Corps man”[.] — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 219, 1970
- During my sophomore year at college, somebody (God bless him) turned me on to dope. — Raymond Mungo, Famous Long Ago, p. 3, 1970
- “I don’t know where you’d get any in Swansea. Why do you ask?” “Oh, I just wanted to turn Elizabeth on.” — Doug Lang, Freaks, p. 108, 1973
- I turned you onto the Honeymooners, Frank Zappa, Ernst Lubitsch, Sushi. I’m like a one-man youth culture for your pathetic assholes. — Kenneth Lonergan, This is Our Youth, p. 31, 2000
- to arouse an interest, sexual or abstract in someone; to stimulate someone; to thrill someone US, 1965
- Not that a straightforward invitation from the young Lana Turner or the young Ava Gardner might not, as they say out here, “turn me on”[.] — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 85, 1968
- One time I was with Jim and we were balling doggie fashion and his roommate came home and got turned on watching us ball. — Adam Film Quarterly, p. 68, October 1973
- Breast-feeding turned me on in a way sex never did. — Sally Cline, Couples, p. 29, 1998
- What turns you on? Champagne and strawberries fed to me by my lovely boyfriend. — Sky Magazine, p. 17, July 2001
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