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zoot up

zoot up verb: to dress in a zoot suit.

Verb

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

  1. (US, intransitive, slang) To dress in a zoot suit.
    • No kidding. For the coolest threads in town, try Valentino’s Zootsuit Collection: Vintage Apparel & Collectibles at the corner of South Sixth Street and Charleston. If you only want to zoot up for a special occasion, rentals are available (call (702)[…]).2004, Bob Sehlinger, “Shopping in Las Vegas”, in The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas 2005, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 411

Forms of zoot up

third-person singular presentzoots up
present participlezooting up
past participlezooted up
pastzooted up

Questions about zoot up

What does zoot up mean?
Zoot up means to dress in a zoot suit.
What part of speech is zoot up?
Zoot up is a verb.
What is the past tense of zoot up?
The past tense of zoot up is zooted up.

Words near zoot up in the dictionary

  1. zoosystematic
  2. zoosystematics
  3. zoot
  4. zoot suit
  5. zoot suits
  6. zoot up
  7. zoot-suited
  8. zoot-suiter
  9. zoot-suiters
  10. zootaxonomic
  11. zootaxonomist

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