1. A large number or amount
   "made dozens of new friends";
   - tons [informal], heaps [informal], lots, piles [informal], scores, stacks [informal], loads [informal], rafts [informal], slews, wads [informal], oodles [informal], gobs [N. Amer, informal], scads [N. Amer, informal], lashings [Brit, informal], many, masses [Brit, informal]
    
2. [US, informal] A game of verbal combat involving witty insults, especially in African American culture
   "The teenagers gathered in the schoolyard to play the dozens"

1. The cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
   - twelve, 12, XII

Type of: large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, large integer

Encyclopedia: Dozens