dozens
IPA: dˈʌzʌnz
noun
- (usually with "the", African-American Vernacular) A verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults.
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Examples of "dozens" in Sentences
- The number of servers is now in the dozens.
- Dozens of editors participated and argued vociferously.
- The scholars participate in the development of dozens of projects.
- I 'spect you have dozens and _dozens_ of little girls to play with.
- The university offers dozens of graduate and postgraduate programmes.
- Olivia had said the name dozens of times, and it still sounded foreign.
- The President has uttered the phrase dozens of times over the past year.
- I played along too perfectly conscious of the fact that playing the dozens is an African America tradition.
- The Washington Post in particular beat up Allen with macaca for the next month, using the term dozens of times.
- I've seed him save dozens, ay _dozens_, of lives -- men, women, and children, -- in lifeboats, an 'in luggers, an' swimmin '.
- Playing the dozens is a uniquely and explicitly African American tradition, and we obviously have an African American candidate favored in the race for the first time ever, and yet it hasn't come up.
- But when she tells him the world-class director helming his work and the famous producer overseeing it all believe the use of the word dozens of times in that one scene is off-putting and should be toned down, Danny reacts with righteous anger about how it's authentic and real and must remain or the entire work is devalued.
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