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Zoo

//zuː// noun, slang

Noun

1
A park where live animals are exhibited. countable
"The London Zoo was built in 1828."
2
the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition wordnet
3
Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic. countable, figuratively, informal
"The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas."
4
A large and varied collection of something. countable, figuratively, informal
"After his insightful book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Spoto published The Dark Side of Genius, a portrayal of the elderly director as a lonely man who was a veritable zoo of desires, suspicions, fears, and addictions (food, drink, romantic infatuation, and filmmaking)."
5
The jungle. US, countable, slang
"I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides."

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6
Clipping of zoophile. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, informal
"Zoophiles, or 'zoos,' are sexually and emotionally attracted to animals, as in a sexual orientation."
7
Clipping of zoophile.; Pornographic material depicting actual animals or bestiality. broadly, informal, uncountable

Clipping of zoological garden or zoological park, now the usual form. See zoology. Sense 5 is a clipping of zoophile or zoophilia.

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