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  • noun Plural form of dozen.
  • noun A large number.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a large number or amount

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Examples

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

    The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day Katherine Keene Galt

  • I've seed him save dozens, ay _dozens_, of lives -- men, women, and children, -- in lifeboats, an 'in luggers, an' swimmin '.

    The Lifeboat 1859

  • 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.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Zoe Kazan Pens Play; Glee's Groff Gets Ugly Michael Giltz 2011

  • The President has uttered the phrase dozens of times over the past year.

    Scott Paul: "Made in America" and the State of the Union Scott Paul 2012

  • 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.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Zoe Kazan Pens Play; Glee's Groff Gets Ugly Michael Giltz 2011

  • Olivia had said the name dozens of times, and it still sounded foreign.

    The Vineyard Barbara Delinsky 2000

  • Olivia had said the name dozens of times, and it still sounded foreign.

    The Vineyard Barbara Delinsky 2000

  • The Washington Post in particular beat up Allen with macaca for the next month, using the term dozens of times.

    Culture and Media Institute Headlines 2008

  • I played along too perfectly conscious of the fact that playing the dozens is an African America tradition.

    Yo Mama's So Fat... - Anil Dash 2008

  • 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.

    Yo Mama's So Fat... - Anil Dash 2008

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