0 a pill containing Benzedrine, which is a type of amphetamine (= a drug that makes the mind or body more active):
1 a sudden period of uncontrolled anger:
2 short for benefit (= something that an employee receives in addition to his or her salary):
One of the results of the long hours that the drivers spend behind the wheel, almost all of them admit, is the use of methamphetamines or "bennies".
As a former doper who has done bennies, I can state that their only virtue is making you wide awake and jumpy.
Bennies were a type of speed commonly used by truckers back then because of the gruelling hauls.
Stylist Hannah demands a beach's worth of sand be produced from the ether or she'll chuck a benny.
The trouble is, we just can't afford most blue collar unions anymore. Their wages, bennies, and perks are just too much for the market.
