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OZ
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Appendix:Variations of "oz"
English
Pronunciation
en oʊ ziː
Etymology 1
From the abbreviation en oz ounce pronounced as an initialism.
Alternative forms
en O.Z. o.z. ohzee oh-zee oh zee ozee o-zee
Noun
en US slang An ounce (especially of marijuana or other drugs).
en 1995 w:Nathan McCall Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America New York, NY w:Vintage Books 0679412689 snPfax5RFq0C 124 O.Z. 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.
en 1998-07-18 Greg Bill Gates, booze and pot https://groups.google.com/g/or.politics/c/-NDiN84gBBg/m/7yFqYVuRtjEJ or.politics Cool. I'll take a large 3 cheese, a 2-Liter of Coke, one ohzee of Purple Cush...
en 2019 Dana Czapnik The Falconer New York, NY w:Washington Square Press 9781501193224 vjxqDwAAQBAJ 245 oh-zees 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
qdhmmxi o.z. n
Etymology 2
Noun
en w:opportunity zone.
en The One, Big, Beautiful Bill https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-One-Big-Beautiful-Bill-Section-by-Section.pdf 2025-05 25 w:United States House Committee on Ways & Means This provision maintains the OZ designation process from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and adds that at least 33 percent of designated OZs must be comprised entirely of a rural area. https://web.archive.org/web/20260921194135/https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-One-Big-Beautiful-Bill-Section-by-Section.pdf 21 September 2026