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Answer for the clue "Oz denizen ", 8 letters:
munchkin

Alternative clues for the word munchkin

Word definitions for munchkin in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In gaming, a munchkin is a player who plays what is intended to be a non-competitive game (usually a role-playing game ) in an aggressively competitive manner. A munchkin seeks within the context of the game to amass the greatest power, score the most "kills", ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1900, coined by U.S. author L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." He never explained how he got the word. The word most like it is perhaps mutchkin , an old Scottish measure of capacity for liquids, which was used by Scott. (It comes ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en informal) A child. 2 (context informal English) A person of very short stature.

Usage examples of munchkin.

I had harbored romantic notions about Munchkin, as Ari had called her, they died a week before.

I knew that Munchkin and I would love each other, but we would never be lovers.

Finally, Munchkin came to the car carrying an overnight bag, coat over her arm.

Inexplicably, Metzger and Munchkin sat in the condo living room and talked by the hour.

Ari went to recalibrate Jeeb to reduced gravity while I walked back with Munchkin to see her cabin.

I never saw Metzger or Munchkin anymore except when I guarded a staff meeting he attended and when Munchkin and I trained together.

According to the Earthside computers, once a firelight started, Munchkin and I each had eleven seconds to live.

I cheated Munchkin through temperature-endurance testing back at Camp Hale.

I turned to help Munchkin, but she was already loose and bent forward, unlashing our gun from its floor hooks.

General against me and Munchkin, and the three of us landed in a heap.

I threw myself across General Cobb and Munchkin as it slammed my back like a charging bull.

I picked out a low-ceilinged side alcove big enough to shelter General Cobb, Munchkin, Howard, Ari, and me, then spread out sleeping bags.

First Squad, so Munchkin joined the rest of our squad and rattled rounds into the cave while Second and Fourth Squads ran forward, online, and crouched.

I had red tracer loaded every third round and watched Munchkin stitch every shot straight into the cave.

Besides Munchkin and me, all that remained of HQ Battalion was Howard, Ari, and General Cobb.