OZ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oz"

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the abbreviation oz (ounce) pronounced as an initialism.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oʊ ziː/

Noun

OZ (plural OZs)

  1. (US, slang) An ounce (especially of marijuana or other drugs).
    • 1995, Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America, New York, NY: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 124:
      Selling reefer was a round-the-clock hustle that required more time and energy than I wanted to invest. Unloading a single O.Z. sometimes took up to an hour.
    • 1998 July 18, Greg, “Bill Gates, booze and pot”, in or.politics (Usenet):
      Cool. I'll take a large 3 cheese, a 2-Liter of Coke, one ohzee of Purple Cush...
    • 2019, Dana Czapnik, The Falconer, New York, NY: Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 245:
      The standard basketball weighs twenty-two oh-zees. But right now, it's weightless. It floats. Oh, what it is to be alive.

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