Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cousin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A familiar or fond contraction of cousin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A contraction of cousin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • conjunction informal because
  • noun informal cousin (usually as a term of address).

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Examples

  • The mall was so damn packed that we had to double guard my siblings and my little cousin coz they have the tendency to run off when they get too excited.

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  • I am a big fan of ray!!! ray i think you have got the X factor and ur the best one on there. i know its hard but keep goin coz ur gunna make it and win it!!!!! luff yaz lots ray please dnt give up coz ur the star and always will be love your number one fan Nikita Edwards 14 yrs xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx luff ya lots like jelly tots xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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  • Hiya i new u wud win coz ur mega fit n a gr8 singa i av bought ur single n i voted 4 u lyk 100 tyms congrads on gettin 2 numba 1 i new u wud luv ya loads nicola xxxxxxxxx

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  • I guess you refer to name calling coz of the words Krusty

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  • Me - (couldn't undestand the name coz of his accent)

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  • [self praise in short coz everyone knows that self praise is no praise] but I've not asked for anything, present wise for a long time now.

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  • i like being told that he loves me, but he rights it in a text, more then like 5 times a day, aswell as in the morning and night. i reckon he shouldnt over-use the word coz when it gets said too much, it loses all meaning, and a month.

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  • i m gng in irma although i hv a lot other calls coz i wanna do RD n irma is a place which was my dream ...

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  • March 26th, 2010 at 1: 02 am the guys point must be at the origin coz they aren’t grooming in almost never a reason for their insecurity tahrey Says:

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  • While i hate when actors are changed between flickscontinuity is shot and while I do like Howard,its tough to call coz Cheadle is a superior actor.

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  • The examples conflate "cousin" and "because". Cuz they're not the same, coz.

    May 29, 2010