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OZ en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /oʊ ziː/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (US, slang) An ounce (especially of marijuana or other drugs).
   • 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):
   • 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:
   • 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:

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OZ en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /oʊ ziː/

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of opportunity zone.
   alt of opportunity zone
   • 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. 2025 May 14, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 25:

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