ozone n.1
(orig. US)air.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Broken to Harness I 69: I was confoundedly seedy, and my doctor told me I wanted more ozone. | |
| Civil and Military Gazette 21 June in Pinney (1987) 44: Come under the Punkah, Maud, / For the air is devoid of ozone, / And the scent of the brick-kilns is wafted abroad. | |
| ‘An Ungrateful “Missis”’ Sporting Times 25 Aug. 1/4: I’d willingly take her to Marate, and stay / For a fortnight to breathe the ozone. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Dec. 14/3: The State Parliament and its feminine detachment were just in the humor to beam on an imported Governor after several hours of the breezy ozone on the Hygeia, with luncheon included. | |
| Chuckles 10 Jan. 1: He once again gleefully inhaled the dear old ozone from the glue factories of his native village, Wapping. | |
| Clicking of Cuthbert 31: Three times he swung and only connected with the ozone. | |
| Nine Tailors (1984) 309: At Southend you would call it ozone and pay a pound a sniff for it. | |
| Observer 11 June 7: The Englishman regards a look at the sea and a breath of its ozone as his natural right. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 38: A whiff of the ozone might be just the thing to buck her up. |
In derivatives
(US) intoxicated by drugs.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | et al. Angel Dust 142: Peaches is too functional to count among the really ‘ozoned’ [...] the ‘ozoned’ end up shuffling around like the image of the lobotomized patient. [Ibid.] 171: I really digged that, you know, getting ozoned to the max. | |
 | BrewCrew 01 Pics 🌐 Ozoned Out – Busted Weekend. |
In compounds
(US campus) someone who is out of touch with reality.
| Campus Sl. Apr. 3: ozone ranger – someone in a dazed condition, not always as a result of drugs or alcohol. | |
| Campus Sl. Sept. | |
| Sl. and Sociability 32: Ozone ranger, a synonym of lunchbox, alludes to the radio and television character the Lone Ranger. |
In phrases
to reject, to dismiss.
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 17 Dec. 11/1: Instead of the cats giving their chicks the ozone, they’re hunting up new ones. | |
| ‘Color of Murder’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 He had been goofy over Kathie at one time; but she’d given him the ozone in favor of this Denniston ham. |
(US) dazed; or intoxicated by drugs or drink.
| in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 80: She is in the O-zone! | |
| Campus Sl. Sept. 4: in the ozone – not functioning in the present: Sally is always in the ozone when I talk to her. | |
| Court TV 3 Mar. [TV] He’s off in the ozone....He doesn’t seem to know what’s going on [HDAS]. |
out of touch, alienated.
| Campus Sl. Mar. 4: lost in the ozone – out of touch. |