dozens
DUZ-uhnz/ˈdʌzənz/
- 1Plural of dozen. Use this when you mean more than one group of twelve, or simply a lot of something.
We bought dozens of eggs for the bake sale.
There were dozens of people waiting outside the store.
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- 2A spoken game where two or more people trade clever insults to see who is funnier.
Like a friendly contest to see who can come up with the funniest joke insult.
The kids played the dozens on the porch all afternoon.
He always won at the dozens because his comebacks were so quick.
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dozens is a form of dozen
dozen, noun: A group of twelve things, like twelve eggs or twelve buns. Full entry
- Forms
- dozen also pluraldozens plural
- Spelling
- dozen → dozens: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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