Benzo

Quick meaning: Benzo is an adjective meaning (organic chemistry) Of a ring compound, especially a heterocycle, which also has a fused benzene ring.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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.
3. (informal) Clipping of benzodiazepine.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• benzos

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pyrene, benz, pyrones, benzocyclic, benzoannulated, benzenic.

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