OZ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oz"

English

Alternative forms

• O.Z., o.z., ohzee, oh-zee, oh zee, ozee, o-zee

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oʊ ziː/

Noun

OZ (plural OZs)

1. (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^[1] (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.

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “o.z. n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang