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Noun
/ˈdəzən/,
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dozens, plural;
  1. A group or set of twelve
    • - a dozen bottles of sherry
  2. A lot
    • - she has dozens of admirers
  3. An exchange of insults engaged in as a game or ritual among black Americans

  1. twelve: denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units
  2. twelve: the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
  3. (dozens) tons: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"
  4. Dozen, common abbreviation doz or dz, is another word for the number twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the moon or months in a cycle of the sun or year. ...
  5. (The dozens) The Dozens is an element of the African American oral tradition in which two competitors, usually males, go head-to-head in a competition of often good-natured insults. ...
  6. A set of twelve; A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many; An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight
  7. (Dozens) either the first, second or third dozen non-zero numbers (1-12, 13-24 and 25-36, respectively). If the ball lands in one of the twelve numbers in a dozen, the odds paid are 2-to-1.
  8. The dozens bet is located right under the numbers in the layout. There are three dozens in the game you can wager on-first, second and third. When you win, the wager pays 2:1.
  9. The word dozen is a contraction of the Latin Duodecim (two + ten). This root also appears in dodecagon (from duodecagon) and duodenum, the first part of the intestine which is about twelve inches long.
  10. Stupefied, the effects of age -- to dozen, to benumb.
  11. Betting that the ball will land on either the first, middle, or last third of the numbers.
  12. Combination of the roulette game that puts a block of twelve numbers
  13. a familiar unit of quantity equal to 12. Division into units of 12 rather than 10 has the advantage that 12 can be evenly divided into halves, thirds, or quarters. For this reason, units of 12 have been common since the earliest civilizations of the Middle East. ...