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zoots

zoots is the plural of zoot.

zoots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of zoot.

Meaning of zoot

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)

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.

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Questions about zoots

What is zoots the plural of?
Zoots is the plural of zoot.

Words near zoots in the dictionary

  1. zootoxins
  2. zootrope
  3. zootropes
  4. zootrophic
  5. zootrophotoxism
  6. zoots
  7. zootsuit
  8. zootsuiter
  9. zootsuiters
  10. zootsuits
  11. zooty

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