ozoner

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noun

A drive-in movie theater.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounozoner (plural ozoners)

plural ozoners

  1. A drive-in movie theater.

    But it wasn't just Denver that was once infatuated with ozoners The whole country was in love with driveins

    1998 July 26, “The `Ozoner' Layer Colorado's Remaining Drive-ins Flicker With Nostalgia, New Appeal”, in Rocky Mountain News
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    Instead of The Ten Commandments, ozoners were filled with pictures like The Beach Girls and the Monster, High School Hellcats, and Billy Jack

    1997 September 14, “Starlite memories Series”, in St. Petersburg Times

    Are you an ozoner fan? Well if you do love drivein movies KC offers seven outdoor screens from which to choose

    2002 June 30, “KC is a movie lover's paradise”, in The Kansas City Star, The

Origin

From the supposed concentration of ozone gas at such theaters + -er (“Variety -er”).

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APA

ozoner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ozoner

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“ozoner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ozoner. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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