doozy

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  1. noun Slang Something extraordinary or bizarre: "Among the delicious names taken by, or given to, minor political parties in the United States . . . are these doozies: Quids, Locofocos, Barnburners, Coodies, Hunkies, Bucktails” (Saturday Review).

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  • "Winterset" is his first published story and it's a doozy -- both an homage to the mind-bending fiction of Alfred Bester and an inventive tale in its own right. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 03 - September 2003
  • Last year's doozy is almost as good as this year's but not quite. —  GlobalWarming.org
  • Its March starts off with another doozy, a civil disobedience march Monday on the coal-fired power plant that Congress owns. —  Utne Reader Latest 10 Articles
  • Crown Bar's doozy is the "Trophy Cup," Pimm's, diet Red Bull and Veev. —  Eater LA
  • Answer: Mali and Somalia (I thought this question was a doozy -- congrats to all those who got it.) —  Gadling
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  1. Possibly blend of daisy and Duesenberg, a luxury car of the late 1920s and 1930s.
 

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