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dozens

dozens is the plural of dozen.

Meaning of dozen

Noun (1)

dozen (plural dozens or dozen)

  1. A set of twelve.
    • Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
  2. (always followed by of) A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.
    • There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
    Synonyms:
    a great deal of
  3. An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
    • The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 139
  4. The number twelve.

Noun (2)

dozen (plural dozens)

  1. (derogatory, South Korean idol fandom) A member of a K-pop group who has no talent.

Noun

dozens pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, usually, with-definite-article, African-American Vernacular) 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.”2013, Lewis R. Gordon, Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought, page 34

Phrases with dozens

Questions about dozens

What does dozens mean?
Dozens means a verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults.
What is dozens the plural of?
Dozens is the plural of dozen.
What part of speech is dozens?
Dozens is a noun.

Words near dozens in the dictionary

  1. dozenalist
  2. dozenalists
  3. dozenals
  4. dozenful
  5. dozenfuls
  6. dozens
  7. dozens offer
  8. dozens offers
  9. dozenth
  10. dozenths
  11. dozer

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