benz

1. slanguncountableThe drug amphetamine, used recreationally for its stimulant effects.

   Now from taking all this Benz and scrumpy and stuff, I wasn’t all that bright on remembering where I had been and what I was doing most of the time, and even when people spoke to me it took me about two minutes to register what they had said.

   1961, Frank Norman, “A Parrot, a Juke-box and the Benz” (chapter 3), in Stand on Me: A true story of Soho with a glossary of slang, for those who need it, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, Inc., →LCCN, page 30

   Synonyms: benzie

1. UKabbreviationclippingslangClipping of benners (“a bag of cannabis worth £10”).

   What's that smell in the chеst of drawers? / Young boy sellin' them benz and scores / Gotta get rich in desperate cause / Talk about drill, gotta mention moi

   2024 September 5, Central Cee, Einer Bankz, Raye, “Moi”, performed by Central Cee and Raye, Columbia Records

plural Benzes

1. A surname from German.

plural Benzes

1. abbreviationellipsisinformalautomotiveEllipsis of Mercedes-Benz.

   It was a Benz, an unusual car in this neighborhood, blue with a thick white stripe bisecting the hood, the roof, and the trunk.

   2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 110

   Synonyms: Merc, Mercedes, Mercedes-Benz