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English
Etymology
From the abbreviation oz (“ounce”) pronounced as an initialism.
Pronunciation
Noun
OZ (plural OZs)
- (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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