oz

plural ozs · alternative oz.

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of ounce; any of various units of weight and volume.

   Add 8 oz of flour.

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis 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.

1. uncountableAn unreal, magical realm.

   Synonyms: wonderland

1. colloquialAustralia.

   Synonyms: Aussie, Aussieland

plural Ozs · plural Ozes

1. A male given name.
   1. A diminutive of the male given names Oscar, Oswald, and Osbourne.

plural Ozs · plural Ozes

1. A surname.

plural Ozs · plural Ozes · alternative Öz · alternative Ooz · alternative Oez · alternative Œz · alternative Ez

1. A surname from Turkish, notably borne by Dr. Oz

plural OZs · alternative O.Z. · alternative o.z. · alternative ohzee · alternative oh-zee · alternative oh zee · alternative ozee · alternative o-zee

1. USslangAn 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)

   2 more examples

   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

plural OZs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism 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 29, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 25