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zoot

/zuːt/

zoot noun: a zoot suit.

Noun (1)

zoot (plural zoots)

  1. (US, slang) A zoot suit.
    • 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, […]1965, Malcolm X, Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published 2015, →ISBN, page 70
  2. (slang) A fursuit.
    • 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.1997, Alterskunk, “Spokesfur to appear on BBC Radio”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet)
    • It seems some Furries like zoots because they're the closest thing to a live anthro they can find.1999, Boomer the Dog, “Fursuits appear in the strangest places...”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet)

Noun (2)

zoot (countable and uncountable, plural zoots)

  1. (UK, countable, slang) A marijuana cigarette.
    • How many zoots you getting out of a 3.5? I’m hearing 4 is normal🥴2020 October 13, @_OsoSandro11, Twitter
  2. (Trinidad-and-Tobago, countable, slang) A cigarette butt.
  3. (UK, slang, uncountable) PCP; phencyclidine.

Verb

zoot (third-person singular simple present zoots, present participle zooting, simple past and past participle zooted)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To rush around quickly; to scoot.
    • Lauren loves to zoot around the shopping mall. At top speed.2011, Lauren Singer, Fred and I and a Dash of Pepper, page 51
    • As well as allowing more and more people to zoot around the city in their cars, these roads also allowed for the improvement of public transport within Cardiff.2015, David Collins, Gareth Bennett, The Little Book of Cardiff

zoot meaning in Tamil

zoot in Tamil

ஏறுமாறான நீளகலவு வெட்டுத் தையலுடைய

Synonyms of zoot

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Forms of zoot

Noun
pluralzoots
Verb
third-person singular presentzoots
present participlezooting
past participlezooted
pastzooted

Origin of zoot

Ellipsis of zoot suit.

Of unknown origin.

Words formed from zoot

Phrases with zoot

Words that rhyme with zoot

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Questions about zoot

What does zoot mean?
Zoot means a zoot suit.
What is zoot in Tamil?
Zoot in Tamil is ஏறுமாறான நீளகலவு வெட்டுத் தையலுடைய. See Zoot meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is zoot?
Zoot can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce zoot?
Zoot is pronounced /zuːt/.
What is the plural of zoot?
The plural of zoot is zoots.

Words near zoot in the dictionary

  1. zoosterol
  2. zoosterols
  3. zoosyntax
  4. zoosystematic
  5. zoosystematics
  6. zoot
  7. zoot suit
  8. zoot suits
  9. zoot up
  10. zoot-suited
  11. zoot-suiter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zoot (page history and authors); zoot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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