Meaning of Oz | Babel Free

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1. Ellipsis of Land of Oz, the fictional setting created by L. Frank Baum for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and other works. The term has been extended from the original country of Oz to the entire fictional world of Oz. Subsequently used as a setting by other authors and artists.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
2. An unreal, magical realm.
   uncountable
3. Australia.
   colloquial
4. A male given name.
5. A surname.
6. A surname from Turkish, notable borne by Dr. Oz
7. Abbreviation of ounce; any of various units of weight and volume.
   abbreviation, alt-of
8. An ounce (especially of marijuana or other drugs).
   US, slang
9. Initialism of opportunity zone.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
10. A diminutive of the male given names Oscar, Oswald, or Osbourne.

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Examples

“Add 8 oz of flour.”

“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.”

“Cool. I'll take a large 3 cheese, a 2-Liter of Coke, one ohzee of Purple Cush...”

“The standard basketball weighs twenty-two oh-zees. But right now, it's weightless. It floats. Oh, what it is to be alive.”

“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.”

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