benny
See also: Benny
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛni
Etymology 1
Abbreviated from Benzedrine
Noun
benny (plural bennies)
- (slang) An amphetamine tablet.
- (Britain, slang) A tantrum; a fit of furious or erratic behaviour.
- 2001, "Neil Davey", Sacked Referees (on newsgroup alt.games.champ-man)
- BTW, you might like to see what happens to CM00-01 when one of your sticks of memory decides to have a benny:
- 2010, Ian Sansom, The Bad Book Affair
- 'Like I told the police, I think she's just having a benny.'
- 2011, Kate Morgan, Wicked Games, page 34:
- "Stop having a benny, Liam." Gwen was getting agitated. Liam was failing miserably at his attempts to get Casey to back down.
- 2001, "Neil Davey", Sacked Referees (on newsgroup alt.games.champ-man)
Verb
benny (third-person singular simple present bennies, present participle bennying, simple past and past participle bennied)
- (usually with "up") To take amphetamines.
- 1963, Joe Grosscup, Fourth and One: By Lee Grosscup, page 268:
- Bulldog's habit of "bennying up" for the ball games had become a humorous item among the players.
- 1980, Commercial motor carrier safety: hearing before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation:
- He had been on the road that long and so bennied up.
- 2003, Jack Cady, Ghosts of Yesterday, →ISBN, page 104:
- "If you guys got any brains," the tired and bennied driver said, "you'll keep your sweet fannies t'hell out of it.
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Etymology 2
Abbreviation of benefit
Alternative forms
Noun
benny (plural bennies)
- (informal) A benefit.
- 2001, Scott Edwards, Programming and Customizing the Basic Stamp Computer, page 158:
- A benny of using an older modem is that it usually includes a good manual on the AT command set.
- 2004, Mary Foley, Bodac!ous woman: outrageously in charge of your life and lovin' it!, page 100:
- A "benny" of being curious and continuing to learn and grow is that you […]
- 2000, Approach, volume 45, number 5, page 22:
- After depositing the larger items at the post office for the free ride home (a benny of being overseas: free mail), we headed back to the plane.
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