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bennied-up

bennied-up adjective: intoxicated by benzedrine or other amphetamines.

Adjective

bennied-up (comparative more bennied-up, superlative most bennied-up)

  1. Intoxicated by benzedrine or other amphetamines.
    • The next time you sit down at your table with meat, fruit and vegetables, give thanks for it — and for that so-called (by you) bennied-up killer of the highway, the "gypsy," for bringing it to you.1971, Popular Mechanics - Volume 136, page 8
    • Now what I should have done was ask for one of those pills, pop it before a game, and report on what it was like to watch a game bennied-up.1989, Roy Blount, Jr., About Three Bricks Shy ... and the Load Filled Up: The Story of the Greatest Football Team Ever, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    stoned

Examples of bennied-up in a sentence

  • The spontaneous, improvisatory, perhaps bennied-up writer is not a raving verbiage-machine hurling out every word that comes to mind.1998, David Sterritt, Mad to be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film, →ISBN, page 194:
  • I felt more comfortable with a bennied-up driver of a big bus than I did with a coffeed-up pilot of a little airplane.2008, Michael Supe Granda, It Shined: The Saga of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, →ISBN, page 276:

Synonyms of bennied-up

Forms of bennied-up

comparativemore bennied-up
superlativemost bennied-up
alternative formbennied up

Questions about bennied-up

What does bennied-up mean?
Bennied-up means intoxicated by benzedrine or other amphetamines.
How do you use bennied-up in a sentence?
The spontaneous, improvisatory, perhaps bennied-up writer is not a raving verbiage-machine hurling out every word that comes to mind.
What part of speech is bennied-up?
Bennied-up is an adjective.

Words near bennied-up in the dictionary

  1. Bennettsville
  2. benni
  3. bennie
  4. bennied
  5. bennied up
  6. bennied-up
  7. bennies
  8. Bennifer
  9. Benning
  10. Benninger
  11. Benningers

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