OZ
See also: Appendix:Variations of "oz"
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From the abbreviation oz (“ounce”) pronounced as an initialism.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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.
- 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.
Further reading edit
- Jonathon Green (2024) “o.z. n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang