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zoot¹

  • /zuːt/

Rhymes with -uːt

Where it comes from

Ellipsis of zoot suit.

noun 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, […]
  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.

zoot²

  • /zuːt/

Rhymes with -uːt

Where it comes from

Of unknown origin.

noun zoots

  1. UK, countable, slang A marijuana cigarette. How many zoots you getting out of a 3.5? I’m hearing 4 is normal🥴

    Similar: bifta, bifter, blunt, bogie, bomber, bone, bun, Camberwell carrot, doink, doinker, doob, doober

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

verb zoots · zooting · zooted

  1. intransitive, slang To rush around quickly; to scoot. Lauren loves to zoot around the shopping mall. At top speed.

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"zoot." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/zoot.

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@misc{zoot_2026,
  title = {zoot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zoot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}