bennied-up

English

Alternative forms

• bennied up

Adjective

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

1. Intoxicated by benzedrine or other amphetamines.
   • 1971, Popular Mechanics - Volume 136, page 8:

     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.

   • 1989, Roy Blount, Jr., About Three Bricks Shy ... and the Load Filled Up: The Story of the Greatest Football Team Ever, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 1998, David Sterritt, Mad to be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film, →ISBN, page 194:

     The spontaneous, improvisatory, perhaps bennied-up writer is not a raving verbiage-machine hurling out every word that comes to mind.

   • 2008, Michael Supe Granda, It Shined: The Saga of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, →ISBN, page 276:

     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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:stoned