A group G is called metacyclic if it contains a normal cyclic subgroup such that the quotient group of G is also cyclic. In this paper, we compute the size of centralizers of some non-abelian metacyclic 2-groups of negative type. Using these results, we obtain the set of conjugacy class lengths of these groups.

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