Colleague carries one with Jim Beam, so she can doctor her Cokes. Much cheaper than paying the club, and it’s enough for one evening.
I had a dugout with a one hitter. My first exposure to good weed involved Hawaiian a friend somehow acquired. It was amazing.
What is a ‘one hitter’?
I have a metal flask covered in black leather(-ette) somewhere that I used back in the '90s. I decade or so ago I bought a flask at a Pogues concert with their logo on it. I’ve never used that one.
Also known (by kayaker at least!) as a dugout. A metal tube that fits a single hit worth of pot in the end, so as to waste no smoke. Often comes in a wooden compartment to carry your supply of weed. I’m sure you could google photos. I always favored the ones that looked like a cig.
Heck, back in the (late) 70s, not only did we use 1-hitters all the time when out and about, but we also used the 1-hot bowls on our bongs. And those of you who didn’t encounter good pot back in the day, well, you were hanging w/ the wrong crowd.
I and my friends definitely over-imbibed. But I always thought 1/2 pints too small to be of any real use. We snuck 5ths of gin and bags of ice into the college football games.
I one hitter is a small pipe. If it’s fully loaded it will be about one puff of cannabis.
Is used to carry a filled one hitter and a mini Bic lighter in the little watch pocket of my Levi’s. In reality, it was like three puffs for me.
That depended on where you lived. In San Diego in the 80s, Mexican red hair was everywhere. The good green stuff was difficult to find except in October.
I went to the Pirate’s opening day years ago because my buddy bought a dozen tickets. It was a horribly cold day. I would have gone home after tailgating, but I’d gotten a ride with my friend.
I was wearing a heavy coat with lots of pockets. My friend who bought the tickets owned a bar. He brought many dozens of airplane bottles of assorted booze and filled my pockets.
As I went through the turnstiles, my friend yelled from his line, “Hey kayaker, did you get the booze through?” The security guy made eye contact with me, then told me my friend was an asshole. He waved me through but told me not to cause any trouble. I did as he asked.
In those days I was living in Alaska, which had its share of both good and bad weed. And thanks to Dinsdale I am sorta remembering that sort of set-up on some pipes that were around. We just never used them. Most of the people I hung with were local musicians who couldn’t afford good weed anyway.
I remember one evening 3 of us pre-partied at a friend’s house over xmas break, before going to a movie. His parents came home and met us as we left carrying a case of beer. Different times…
So the 3 of us each snuck 8 beers into the movie. The first 2 of us made it in no problem, but the 3d guy musta clinked, cause he got stopped and patted down. The other 2 of us just laughed at him, and made him beg us to share our beers, since he had lost his! (I remember the movie was The Electric Horseman, but I couldn’t tell you a damned thing it was about!).
At the football games, I remember one time the guy w/ the tonic water dropped a bottle (glass, back then), right at the ticket-taker. The bottle absolutely exploded! 
The rest of us just hurried into the crowd.
Maybe such habits explain why I am now something like 17 years sober?! 
I never heard the term dugout before. I imagine it technically refers to the wooden case, shaped kinda like a slender pack of smokes. Had a round hole w/ a spring at the bottom, so when you slid the top off the 1-hitter popped up. Then there was a larger compartment in which you placed the weed. Grind the 1-hitter in there, and it fills w/ a perfect single hit.
I was in a college town, and to my fortune/misfortune, among my closest friends ere some of the biggest dealers. So access to quality was NEVER an issue.
Was this a long time ago? I wouldn’t think you’d make it through security with a flask today, but then again, I’ve heard stories of TSA missing much bigger stuff.
We called it a dugout, too. The one hitter was the metal pipe, the dugout was the entire apparatus. A dugout is a wooden box with a chamber to hold your weed and another that holds the one hitter. Often, there is a little spring in the one hitter chamber, so the pipe pops up when the lid is opened. Everyone had one when I was young and it wasn’t uncommon to swap them to try each others’ weed.
I own and use a black hip flask.
Not in the TV version - the elder Morse had a passion for english ale, and whiskey in the evening. While he drank too much, he wasn’t an alcoholic in the way the younger Endeavour was portrayed at the end of season 8.
Years ago (2013*), friends and I were on a ski trip to Aspen/Snowmass which happily overlapped the winter X Games and we made plans to go one night. We thought we’d be sneaky and smuggle in some booze, those Aspen bar prices really set you back and we were using public transportation, anyway. At the event, we got into line and turned a corner to see security and police frisking all of the attendees. Incredibly, none of us (I think a party of five or six) were busted, thanks to the poor quality of the search. It wasn’t really flasks, though, we just reused small water bottle.
*Unfortunately, the date was easy to look up since the only X Games accident ending in a fatality occurred when we happened to be there. We didn’t know at the time since his injuries were not reported to be life threatening at first.
I know someone that uses phony shampoo bottles to smuggle onboard. Use the ultra high-octane 192 proof Spirytus for extra mileage.
I went to the Texas State Fair with someone who decided they’d rather smuggle gin in pump hairspray bottles than drink the overpriced beer on offer. Gin tastes like hairspray to me, so it seemed like a reasonable plan. Nobody questioned them, and they were able to drink gin all day.
I love that no one at the Texas State Fair thought it odd that someone would bring a bottle of hairspray. I mean…Texas!
“My alcohol addiction is so strong that I would rather people think I drink hairspray than go without.”
We called it a “pinch hitter;” I’ve never heard the term “one hitter.” The wooden dealio that held the weed and the apparatus was indeed called a “dugout.”
The baseball fan in me thinks having a pinch hitter in your dugout sounds more elegant!
Hehehe, we’ve always called the straight pipe a “bat” in my neck of the woods. So, a similar baseball nomenclature. I have one in a dugout sitting on my desk that I’ve owned for decades, that little sliding door is going to need to be replaced soon.
A one hitter was usually used to describe an unusually small single hit bowl for a pipe or a bong back in the day. Some folks had fancy revolving six shooters of one hitter bowls for their bongs. “It’s a one hitter - finish it” was something I heard many times, for bowls I sometimes didn’t think really qualified, But who am I to argue?
@Esprise_Me and @DrFidelius : The best part was that she didn’t have a bit of hairspray in her hair, and I’m pretty sure we straight up smoked a joint on one of the rides. What you thought of her? She didn’t care what I thought of her, and I was her friend. I tried a few squirts from her Rave bottle and thought “Nope, I don’t like gin that way, either.”