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dozens

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United States

A verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults.

noun

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    Also a form of dozenplural of dozen

noun

  1. 1

    A verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults.

    […] black communities, this “snap” or example of the “dozens” (the clever form of insult also known as signifying and dissin') appears: “Your father's so black that when he falls down, people hop over him for fear of falling in.”

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).