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zoot

n. 1 (context US slang English) A zoot suit. 2 (context UK slang English) A marijuana cigarette. 3 (context UK slang English) PCP; phencyclidine. 4 (context Trinidad and Tobago slang English) A cigarette butt.

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Zoot

Zoot may refer to:

  • Zoot Comics, a 1946–1948 Fox Features Syndicate comic book featuring Rulah, Jungle Goddess
  • Zoot (band), an Australian pop group active 1965–1971
  • Zoot!, a 1956 album by saxophonist Zoot Sims
  • Zoot suit, a style of clothing first popular in the 1930s and 1940s
  • Zoot, a game on the MSX platform, released by Bug Byte software in 1986
Zoot (band)

Zoot were a pop/rock band formed in Adelaide, South Australia in 1965 as Down the Line. They changed their name to Zoot in 1967 and by 1968 had relocated to Melbourne. They had a top five hit on the Go-Set national singles chart with a heavy rock cover of The Beatles' ballad " Eleanor Rigby" released in 1970; but they disbanded in May 1971.

Mainstay bass guitarist, Beeb Birtles, was later a founder of Little River Band in 1975 and guitarist singer-songwriter, Rick Springfield, who moved to the United States in 1972, achieved international fame as a solo artist, songwriter and actor.

Zoot reunited for the Rick Springfield and Friends cruise in November 2011.

Usage examples of "zoot".

Eerst ben je zoo zot je engagement af te maken, louter uit een gril, zonder de minste aanleiding, zeg ik je!

Omally chose for this special occasion a Hawaiian shirt that his best friend Pooley had given him for Christmas, a dove-grey zoot suit he had borrowed from this selfsame Pooley, and the aforementioned winklepicker boots, which in fact were also the property of the also aforementioned Pooley.

Mondo Lopez, Juan Duarte and Sammy Benavides, former Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee bigshots, recruited out of the Sinarquistas--a zoot suit gang given to sporting Nazi regalia--by CP bosses.

Really, she had told olct George again and again that she only wanted sulphur-coloured antirrhinums, zot that rather ugly purple shade that gardeners always seemed so fond of.

All three men were mutilated in the same manner--cuts from an implement known as a zoot stick, bites with the dentures the killer was wearing all over their abdominal areas.

Mondo Lopez, Juan Duarte and Sammy Benavides, former Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee bigshots, recruited out of the Sinarquistas--a zoot suit gang given to sporting Nazi regalia--by CP bosses.

Coleman strangled the rest of his life out, zoot slashed his back, pulled out his eyes like he tried to with the coin collection man back at Sleepy Lagoon.

A burst of rifle fire battered her zoot, and she curled around, automatically protecting the display board without even looking up.

More got in behind the squad, firing into its rear, and men and women who'd survived the fury of a nuclear warhead died as armor-piercing rounds riddled their zoots.

One of them carried a shoulder-fired rocket launcher to deal with blast doors and internal bulkheads, and Gunny Mendenhall's combat zoot received, at point-blank range, a shaped-charge warhead designed to take out a heavy tank.

They must know the laijout of our ships from the ones theyve captured, Escalante had time to reflect before the first Thebans appeared in the passageway intersection behind his position, armed with the shoulder-fired rocket launchers theyd learned to use against zooted Marines.

They must know the laijout of our ships from the one's they've captured, Escalante had time to reflect before the first Thebans appeared in the passageway intersection behind his position, armed with the shoulder-fired rocket launchers they'd learned to use against zooted Marines.

Mal tagged the short, muscular one as Duarte, former Sinarquista squad leader, zoot suits and swastika armbands until the CP brought him around.

Zoot suit punks who got themselves a union card, a license to give shit and think their own shit don't stink.

Zoot suit punks who got themselves a union card, a license to give shit and think their own shit don’.