Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A park or an institution in which living animals are kept and usually exhibited to the public. Also called zoological garden.
- n. Slang A place or situation marked by confusion or disorder: The bus station is a zoo on Fridays.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Shortened form of zoological garden, and now the usual form. See zoology. (Wiktionary)
- Short for zoological garden. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“So, everyone sing a long please- *We're all going to the Zoo..zoo.. we're all going to the zoo!”
“Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails. john: I guess you can say that if a zoo is a jail, then so is civilization a jail for humans.”
“Yann Martel: John, a zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation.”
“Another interesting place was the Dead City, where Egyptians have been buried for centuries, the designs are glorious and huge some as big as several of our houses put together, the zoo is also great.”
“Yet while the zoo is a memory for most, the remains of the zoo is still moldering up there near the Canadian border, just waiting for brave souls to explore its cold husk.”
The Belle Isle Zoo – Where the Wild Things Aren’t - The Retroist
“Yes, it's -5 degrees, but a lot of the stuff at our zoo is actually indoors.”
“Considering that a zoo is an artificially controlled place and the job of a zoo keeper is to protect its animals, the words * nature* and * natural* don't seem to fit into the equation very well.”
Zoo Officials Let Two Sick Polar Bear Cubs Get Eaten By Their Baby Momma
“A trip to the zoo is a great day out, until a date goes tragically wrong and Ianto is badly injured by stolen alien tech.”
“The zoo is not too big, the paths are pretty narrow, giving it a very intimate feel.”
“Yann Martel: A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal -- of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania -- but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘zoo’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
ace, act, aff, aft, apo, app, apt, auk, ava, ave, avo, azo and 225 more...
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goodkitten's list
there is going to be a lot of words...
flammivomous, pep, electrolyzation, research, constrain, why, refrigerator, invisible, windblown, curate's egg, echoism, drumble and 103 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
¡La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones! Ayúdame a encontrarlas todas.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch valen como una sola ...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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O.o
Things that give you a warm fuzzy sort of feeling.
crumpet, cream puff, bubbles, packed lunch, prezzies, stars, pillow, rain, old books, sheep, bikkie, lollipop and 41 more...
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Whooping Crane
Words for the Whooping Crane Alphabet book
ultralight, patuxent, maryland, wisconsin, florida, people, chick, juvenile, adult, swamp monster, teach, learn and 48 more...
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Words with two Os in them
theriomorphic, zoo, oberon, pool, tool, fool, cool, school, occlusion, operation, opioid, solenoid and 24 more...
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Test words
vacation, tourist, tourist office, travel, read, newspaper, book, magazine, television, music, radio, nightclub and 68 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Common Words with Uncommon Letters
Words we see every day that are spelled with an X, Q, or Z.
Tweets
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