benny

• Rhymes: -ɛni

Abbreviated from Benzedrine

benny (plural bennies)

1. (slang) An amphetamine tablet.
2. (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.

benny (third-person singular simple present bennies, present participle bennying, simple past and past participle bennied)

1. (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.

Abbreviation of benefit

• bennie

benny (plural bennies)

1. (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.