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doozy

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a doozy

Something remarkable or exceptional, either positively or negatively, when compared to other instances of it. This Christmas season was a real doozy because my mom was in the hospital. A: "Whoa, that game was a doozy!" B: "I know, right? How exciting!" Our vacation was a doozy all right—it rained nearly every day, and our flight home was canceled at the last minute, which meant we had to sleep at the airport.
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a real doozy

Something remarkable or exceptional, either positively or negatively, especially when compared to other instances of it. This Christmas season was a real doozy because my mom spent most of it in the hospital. A: "Whoa, that game was a real doozy!" B: "I know, right? How exciting!" Our vacation was a real doozy—it rained nearly every day, and our flight home was canceled at the last minute, which meant we had to sleep at the airport.
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doosie

and doozie and doozy (ˈduzi)
n. something extraordinary, good or bad. The trade show was a real doozy this year.

doozy

verb
See doosie
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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References in periodicals archive
Founded in 2015, Doozy Vape Co has seen turnover increase year on year - with a 200% growth forecast for the year ahead, Its recent deal with Asda has seen the business supply 46 stores to date with a national rollout underway.
Victor's specialty is the depiction of alluring women to grace the covers of magazines, and his latest creation is a doozy. So enthralling is she that Victor wants to make her the centerpiece of an entire story, perhaps a series.
Their four decades-plus romance, detailed in John Brady's juicy and judiciously reported Frank & Ava: In Love and War, was the stuff of both dreams and nightmares and makes for a doozy of a read.
Los Angeles, CA, September 29, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Doozy Cards, the online greeting cards company known for offering unique animated eCards for birthdays, holidays, and other occasions, has announced a new line of Postcards available to "post" or share on social media platforms for free.
As bad ideas go, this one's a doozy. For one thing, there's nothing really wrong with the FAA's ATC system.
(All prior to his latest doozy about Senator John McCain.)
Now, scientists have spotted a source of the excess gas, and it's a doozy: a magma pool containing enough hot rock to fill the Grand Canyon 11 times, the researchers report online April 23 in Science.
Mother's Brewing Company of Springfield, MO, has announced the release of Doozy!, a double IPA from its "Mother's Others" The ale, which contains 9.0% ABV and 80 IBUs has just hit retail.
"Lee's role is being kept locked in the deepest vaults of Cyberdyne, I mean Skydance, but it promises to be a doozy," the report said.
This one is a doozy. The son of an Iraqi Minister missed his flight, so guess what the Iraqi authorities did?
He illustrated an entire comic book and it's a visceral, shimmering and oozing doozy. James lavished his painstaking attention to detail into a wild tale.
Then he hit me with a doozy. In the past the company really did not do much traditional or even New Age advertising or promotional activity, he said.
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