zoot

See also: Zoot

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zuːt/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -uːt

Etymology 1

Ellipsis of zoot suit.

Noun

zoot (plural zoots)

1. (slang, US) A zoot suit.
   • 1965, Malcolm X, Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published 2015, →ISBN, page 70:

     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. (furry fandom) A fursuit.
   • 1997, Alterskunk, “Spokesfur to appear on BBC Radio”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

     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.

   • 1999, Boomer the Dog, “Fursuits appear in the strangest places...”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):

     It seems some Furries like zoots because they're the closest thing to a live anthro they can find.

Related terms

• zoot pants
• zoot shirt
• zoot suit
• zoot-suiter

Etymology 2

Of unknown origin.

Noun

zoot (countable and uncountable, plural zoots)

1. (slang, UK) A marijuana cigarette.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette

   • 2020 October 13, @_OsoSandro11, Twitter‎^[1]:

     How many zoots you getting out of a 3.5? I’m hearing 4 is normal🥴

2. (slang, Trinidad and Tobago) A cigarette butt.
3. (uncountable, slang, UK) PCP; phencyclidine.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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.
   • 2011, Lauren Singer, Fred and I and a Dash of Pepper, page 51:

     Lauren loves to zoot around the shopping mall. At top speed.

   • 2015, David Collins, Gareth Bennett, The Little Book of Cardiff:

     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.

References

• Dalzell, Tom with Terry Victor (2008) The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, London and New York: Routledge, →ISBN

Swedish

Noun

zoot

1. definite singular of zoo

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English soot, from Old English sōt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zuːt/

Noun

zoot

1. soot

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 82