Definition of "dozens"

dozens

noun
1. plural of dozen
noun
plural only
1. (usually with "the", African-American Vernacular) A verbal game in which two or more people exchange witty insults.
  Quotations
  […] black communities, this “snap” or example of the “dozens” (the clever form of insult also known as signifying and dissin') appears: “Your father's so black that when he falls down, people hop over him for fear of falling in.”
  2013, Lewis R. Gordon, Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought, page 34