zoot
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- noun
- /zuːt/
- Archaic
:
traje zoot
- There were towns where there were regulations that wouldn't let you wear your zoot suits...
- zoot suit
- zoot suiter
Examples
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- Psycho, put that zoot suit on him.
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Do you think I'm going back in that zoot suit?
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Let's, uh, put him in a zoot suit.
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We all shout Hey, Mr. Zoot Suit
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Don't forget to shout Hey, Mr. Zoot Suit!
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Malcolm, out of uniform and dressed in his zoot suit, comes down from the Park Avenue station in Harlem.
Fiction book (1992) -
They were pachucos, zoot-suiters, and proud of it.
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Shorty is supervising as Malcolm tries on a zoot suit.
Fiction book (1992) -
I've seen them with their zoot suits and two-toned Florsheim shoes.
Fiction book (1996) -
The band in their zoot suits performed a lively jazz set at the club last night.
Synonyms
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A showy men's suit from the 1930s and 1940s with a long jacket and wide trousers
Compounds
- Archaic
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A showy men's suit from the 1930s and 1940s with a long jacket and wide trousers
How Flamboyant
- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Zoot as a slang word for a cannabis cigarette is a later, informal use of the lively name; a helpful way to remember it is that youth and music cultures took the short, punchy word and used it for a small rolled cigarette, so a zoot is a rolled joint people pass around.