Oz
noun/ɒz/
Etymology After the fictional land in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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An unreal, magical realm.
- Synonyms
- wonderland
- Coordinate terms
- Lovecraft Country
OZ
nounalso spelled Oz/oʊ ziː/
Etymology From the abbreviation oz (“ounce”) pronounced as an initialism.
- 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.1995, Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America, New York, NY: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 124:
- Cool. I'll take a large 3 cheese, a 2-Liter of Coke, one ohzee of Purple Cush...1998 July 18, Greg, “Bill Gates, booze and pot”, in or.politics (Usenet):
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- The standard basketball weighs twenty-two oh-zees. But right now, it's weightless. It floats. Oh, what it is to be alive.2019, Dana Czapnik, The Falconer, New York, NY: Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 245: