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Anti-benny message scrawled on a rock at Manasquan Inlet. Labor Day, 2007. Benny is a pejorative term used by year-round residents of the Jersey Shore to describe stereotypically rude, flashy, loud tourists from North Jersey and New York.
Shoobie is used in the Southern New Jersey coast (along with other parts of the east coast), and resort towns in California. The term is also used to describe daytrippers on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. [citation needed] A similar term is benny, which is mostly used in the Monmouth County and northern Ocean County resort towns of the ...
True, people in England do say having a "benny", but this describea an outburst rather than a type of person so doesn't really seem to fit on this page. However the term Benny is used by people of a certain age to derogatively describe a person of apparent low intelligence, derived from the character of the same name in tacky soap opera Crossroads.
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
Benny or Bennie is a given name. It may also refer to: People: Bennie (surname) Benny (surname) Benny (footballer), Portuguese footballer Bernardo Pereira Silvano (born 1996) Benny (slang), a derogatory term used by residents of Jersey Shore towns for tourists that visit each summer; Character (Benny Hawkins) in the British soap opera ...
Pages in category "Jersey Shore" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Benny (slang) C. Cape May County, New Jersey; J. Jersey Shore Shark ...
The term has been around in Black American communities since the 1990s, appearing as early as 1992 on "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube, who raps: "No flexin', didn't even look in a n----'s direction."
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