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benny
noun- an amphetamine, especially Benzedrine (amphetamine sulphate), a central nervous system stimulant US
- I feel an incredible need to talk to you ... Not because I’m high on Benny, and lone in the cursed kitchen, but as a matter of mood. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, pp. 99–100, 13 November 1945
- “Don’t panic,” the girls tell each other as pre-exam work piles up. But some do panic, and a few secretly resort to “bennies” (Benzedrine). — Time, p. 78, 10 October 1949
- Oh, I’ve been trying benny but its peeds everything up, it’s all wrong and besides it makes you talk. — John Clellon Holmes, John Clellon, p. 47, 1952
- Or take two strips of benny and two goof balls. They get down there and have a fight. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 28, 1953
- With each week of work, bombed and sapped and charged and stoned with lush, with pot, with benny[.] — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, p. 243, 1955
- [W]hat do I really know about it except you’ve got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 6, 1957
- I was carrying some bennies, but I wasn’t worried about my vulnerability. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 155, 1960
- Tarbush had been nailed twice for pushing Bennies on the teenage set[.] — Mickey Spillane, Return of the Hood, p. 122, 1964
- At Bass Lake he tended the fire with the single-minded zeal of a man who’s been eating bennies like popcorn. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 185, 1966
- “Top” was back in town, so I stopped on the way home and copped cocaine, yellows, and bennies. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 206, 1969
- We gotta couple poppers, three bennies, two joints, half a fifth of vodka. — Saturday Night Fever, 1977
- I had lost no time in locating a drugstore–following my arrival in the city–that supplied me with bennies first[.] — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 46, 1980
- Since you’re wired on bennies you get to stay up and stare at the building. I’m tired, so I’m going to sleep. — 48 Hours, 1982
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 21, 1996
- Guy high on bennies looked at the guy with no teeth, then looked away, at me. — Joel Rose, Kill Kill Faster Faster, p. 197, 1997
- a Benzedrine inhaler US
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 25, 1970
- a Benson & Hedges cigarette UK
- Or who’s going to get some Rizla and ten Bennies[.] — Macfarlane, Macfarlane and Robson, The User, p. 78, 1996
- in Vancouver Island, an order of Eggs Benedict CANADA
- Not only are they all healthy on the island, they even have suntans. The people are so casual they call eggs Benedict “Benny.” — Montreal Gazette, p. F2, 22 May 2002
- an overcoat UK, 1812
- He lay on the hard boards, his feet cramping in the soft leather of his shoes, the hundred and twenty-five dollars Benny rolled beneath his head as a cushion[.] — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 218, 1960
- What size “benny” and “vine” you wear? — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 92, 1969
- ’Pon her arm she had my six-button benny/ Said, “Here you are MacDaddy, here’s your coat.” — Roger Abrahams, Positively Black, p. 79, 1970
- He had a camel-hair benny with the belt in the back/ Had a pair of nice shoes, and a pair of blue slacks. — Anonymous (“Arthur”), Shine and the Titanic; The Signifying Monkey; Stackolee, p. 1, 1971
- He wore a herringbone jacket with Hollywood slacks/ And a raglan benny with slits in the back. (Collected in 1962). — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 31, 1976
- a Ben Sherman shirt, a fashion item given iconic status by skinheads UK
- [T]hese older lads, skins they were, Bennies, Comos [Fred Perry shirts], Flemmings [brand-name], full kit, come ambling over. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 245, 2001
- a sports fan who looks back at a basketball game and analyses what might have been US
A note in the archives of Peter Tamony explains: “The boys who gather in a hotel room of an evening and mull over thing that happened”. Synonymous with “Monday Morning Quarterback” except basketball people like to call them “Bennys”. Probably from the image of men in overcoats. - There was nothing mysterious about the performance of Jimmy Pollard, the gangly Oakland sensation many of the tournament “Bennys” have been calling the “all-time great.” — San Francisco Examiner, p. 18, 22 March 1946
- a person who looks and talks the part of a surfer but does not actually surf US
- — Trevor Cralle, The Surfin’ary, p. 9, 1991
▶ get a benny on
to lose your temper UK- DAVE: “Not-so-bad”? “Not-so-bad”? Not much of a fuckin’ SOS, that, is it? GAZ: Alright, alright, don’t get a benny on[.] — The Full Monty, 1997
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