benzo

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word benzo. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word benzo, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say benzo in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word benzo you have here. The definition of the word benzo will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofbenzo, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: benžo, benzo-, and Benzo

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

benzo (not comparable)

  1. (organic chemistry) Of a ring compound, especially a heterocycle, which also has a fused benzene ring.

Noun

benzo (plural benzos)

  1. (organic chemistry) A divalent radical formed by the removal of two adjacent hydrogen atoms from a benzene ring.
  2. (organic chemistry) Sometimes used in place of the phenyl group. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (informal) Clipping of benzodiazepine.
    Coordinate term: barb
    • 1998, Jerry Dorsman, How to Quit Drugs for Good, New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 50:
      The benzos, it turns out, are just as highly addicting as the barbs, but they do have a much lower potential to cause death by overdose.
    • 2014, Greg Kurstin, Lily Allen (lyrics and music), “Our Time”, in Sheezus, performed by Lilly Allen:
      I feel fly / I'm rocking Kenzo / I'll get high, but I ain't doing benzos
    • 2020, “Darkness”, in Music to Be Murdered By, performed by Eminem:
      Now I'm starin' at the room service menu off a benzo / I can hear the music continue to crescendo
    • 2023 May 4, Manisha Krishnan, “Man Arrested After Opening Heroin, Cocaine, and Meth Store in Canada”, in Vice‎:
      Martin said he was partially inspired to open the store by his stepbrother Gord Rennie, who died of a drug overdose last year. Rennie was interviewed in the VICE News Tonight documentary, Beyond Fentanyl, about his addiction to benzo dope.

Derived terms

Anagrams

Portuguese

Verb

benzo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of benzer
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia