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bennie

noun as in pep pill

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A popular bumper sticker on cars in southern New Jersey, where day-trippers are disparaged as “bennies,” reads, “Welcome to the shore. Now go home.”

“Amped up on bennies, she would be worked to near-collapse on films like ‘Girl Crazy,’ with director Busby Berkeley pushing her to the limit to complete his elaborate concepts.

There’s William S. Burroughs, the “Naked Lunch” author, who “looks cadaverously beat” and “has a healthy appetite for bennies and horse.”

Indeed, not every town is welcoming an influx of “shoobies” or “bennies” — pejorative terms for day trippers — to their glistening shores.

And don’t forget the bennie for the paupers who own Nascar racetracks and another for race horses.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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