Zoot
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A zoot suit. US, slang
"I couldn't wait for eight o'clock to get home to eat out of those soul-food pots of Ella's, then get dressed in my zoot and head for some of my friends' places in town, to lindy-hop and get high, […]"
- 2 A marijuana cigarette. UK, countable, slang, uncountable
"How many zoots you getting out of a 3.5? I’m hearing 4 is normal🥴"
- 3 A fursuit. slang
"I also told him about a fur meet in which we 'squicked a bunch of mundanes' by running around in a shopping mall in zoots, etc."
- 4 A cigarette butt. Trinidad-and-Tobago, countable, slang, uncountable
- 5 PCP; phencyclidine. UK, slang, uncountable
- 1 To rush around quickly; to scoot. intransitive, slang
"Lauren loves to zoot around the shopping mall. At top speed."
Example
More examples"I couldn't wait for eight o'clock to get home to eat out of those soul-food pots of Ella's, then get dressed in my zoot and head for some of my friends' places in town, to lindy-hop and get high, […]"
Etymology
Ellipsis of zoot suit.
Of unknown origin.
Related phrases
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