benzo
See also: benžo, benzo-, and Benzo
English
Adjective
benzo (not comparable)
- (organic chemistry) Of a ring compound, especially a heterocycle, which also has a fused benzene ring.
Noun
benzo (plural benzos)
- (organic chemistry) A divalent radical formed by the removal of two adjacent hydrogen atoms from a benzene ring.
- (organic chemistry) Sometimes used in place of the phenyl group.
- (informal) Clipping of benzodiazepine.
- Coordinate term: barb
- 1998, Jerry Dorsman, How to Quit Drugs for Good, New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 50:
- 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.
- 2014, Greg Kurstin; Lily Allen (lyrics and music), “Our Time”, in Sheezus, performed by Lilly Allen:
- I feel fly / I'm rocking Kenzo / I'll get high, but I ain't doing benzos
- 2020, “Darkness”, in Music to Be Murdered By, performed by Eminem:
- Now I'm starin' at the room service menu off a benzo / I can hear the music continue to crescendo
Derived terms
- benzocyclobutene
- benzocyclobutenylpotassium
- benzodiazole
- benzodioxin
- benzodithiolium
- benzo dope
- benzo flu
- benzofurazan
- benzofurazanide
- benzohydrazide
- benzonitrile
- benzothiazolethiolate
- benzothiazolylthiolate
- benzotriazole
- benzotriazolium
- benzotriazolo
- benzotrifluoride
Anagrams
- bonze
Portuguese
Verb
benzo
- first-person singular present indicative of benzer