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

  • I 'spect you have dozens and _dozens_ of little girls to play with.
  • 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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