dozen

noun5

1. •
   a group of 12

   • Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
   • I ordered two dozen doughnuts.
2. •
   An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.

   • The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. — 1957
3. •
   The number twelve.
4. •
   A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.

   • There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
   • There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.
5. •
   (offensive) A member of a K-pop group who has no talent.