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OZ

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //oʊ ziː//

An ounce (especially of marijuana or other drugs).

noun

  1. 1

    slangAn ounce (especially of marijuana or other drugs).

    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.

    Cool. I'll take a large 3 cheese, a 2-Liter of Coke, one ohzee of Purple Cush...

    The standard basketball weighs twenty-two oh-zees. But right now, it's weightless. It floats. Oh, what it is to be alive.

Etymology

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

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of opportunity zoneInitialism of opportunity zone.

    This provision maintains the OZ designation process from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and adds that at least 33 percent of designated OZs must be comprised entirely of a rural area.

Forms

plural
OZs
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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