zoot

See also: Zoot

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zuːt/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -uːt

Noun

zoot (plural zoots)

1. (US, slang) A zoot suit.
   • 1965, Malcom 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. (UK, slang) A marijuana cigarette.
3. (UK, slang) PCP; phencyclidine.
4. (Trinidad and Tobago, slang) A cigarette butt.
5. (fandom slang) A fursuit.
   • 1997, "Alterskunk", Spokesfur to appear on BBC Radio (on newsgroup alt.fan.furry)

     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... (on newsgroup alt.lifestyle.furry)

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

Related terms

• zoot suit

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Etymology

From Middle English soot, from Old English sōt.

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