benzo

1. not comparablechemistryOf a ring compound, especially a heterocycle, which also has a fused benzene ring.

plural benzos

1. chemistryA divalent radical formed by the removal of two adjacent hydrogen atoms from a benzene ring.
2. chemistrySometimes used in place of the phenyl group.
3. abbreviationclippinginformalClipping of benzodiazepine.

   I feel fly / I'm rocking Kenzo / I'll get high, but I ain't doing benzos

   2014, Greg Kurstin, Lily Allen, “Our Time”, in Sheezus, performed by Lilly Allen

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   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.

   1998, Jerry Dorsman, How to Quit Drugs for Good, New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 50

   Now I'm starin' at the room service menu off a benzo / I can hear the music continue to crescendo

   2020, “Darkness”, in Music to Be Murdered By, performed by Eminem

   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.

   2023 May 4, Manisha Krishnan, “Man Arrested After Opening Heroin, Cocaine, and Meth Store in Canada”, in Vice