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