What is "bennies"

Usage examples of "bennies".

Jack pistol-whipped Weiskopf, tossed his pad, found a trunk full of goofballs and bennies.

Jack kept the trunk--and dipped into it for bennies to keep him juiced on all-night stakeouts.

Jack hit the trunk for real, mixing goofballs, bennies, scotch, taking down half the names on the _down beat_ poll: THE MAN, jazzster's public enemy number one.

Near midnight: he'd been drinking scotch, he blew a reefer on the way over, the bennies he'd been swallowing weren't catching up with the booze.

Later several Angels assured me that their bennies were indeed fives -- at least that's what they were paying for.

I recall a two-day party, many months after Bass Lake, at which Terry began the first day with beer, had a stick of the grass at noon, then more beer, and another joint before dinner, then to red wine and a handful of bennies to keep awake.

But I can't get a good look, the beer and the bennies in my head get in the way.

I swallowed my last three bennies, the big white fuckers with a cross.

Two dollars would buy 1000 bennies, and for three bucks could get all the nitroglycerine tablets a heart patient could consume in a lifetime.

Later several Angels assured me that their bennies were indeed "fives" -- at least that's what they were paying for.

But they prefer the reds -- which they take along with beer and bennies "to keep from getting sleepy.