benzedrine

English

Etymology

From the trade name for the first pharmaceutical (racemic) amphetamine (1932), derived from benzyl-methyl carbinamine.[1]

Noun

benzedrine (uncountable)

  1. The racemic mixture of amphetamine (dl-amphetamine).
    • 1963, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Faber and Faber, page 118:
      Then I would be way ahead when college started at the end of September, and able to enjoy my last year instead of swotting away with no make-up and stringy hair, on a diet of coffee and benzedrine, the way most of the seniors taking honours did, until they finished their thesis.

Derived terms

References
  1. Samuel H. Barondes (2003), chapter 5, in Better than Prozac, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 62–63

Further reading

Italian

Noun

benzedrine f

  1. plural of benzedrina
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