Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A man's suit popular during the early 1940s, characterized by full-legged, tight-cuffed trousers and a long coat with wide lapels and heavily padded, wide shoulders.
Wiktionary
- n. An outfit featuring a suit with broad shoulders, a long coat, and baggy trousers that taper to a tight fit at the ankles.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a flashy suit of extreme cut
Etymologies
- Probably from an alteration of suit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Sleepy Lagoon sparked the zoot suit riots, your police department running amok.”
“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.”
“It was right before the zoot suit riots, and everyone was cuckoo about the mexes.”
“‘43 De Haven told me she wanted to reform because some Mexican boyfriend of hers got beat up in the zoot suit riots and she wanted to work more efficaciously for the People’s Revolt.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘zoot suit’.
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Fads
With bows of great respect to Connie Willis, author of "Bellwether" and other wonderful books.
Hula-Hoop, bungee-jumping, hair-bobbing, pogs, jitterbug, jogging, mesmerism, Ouija board, miniature golf, The Old Curiosity..., Harry Potter, line dancing and 271 more...
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range change
there is a long list of word combos where the one sound change leads to a captivating mini-slogan - near beer, tie dye, jelly belly ..................Here's a list for discovering a new few
range change, new few, dehisce devise, peer fear, fly sky, air there, rear mirror, wry try, mombo combo, middle riddle, fun won, riddle griddle and 82 more...
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Choi inspired
Fun words my friend loves and others I introduced to him.
Namby-pamby, Niminy piminy, Nitpick, Nit-wit, Piggly-wiggly, Ping-pong, Pitter-patter, Raggle-taggle, Riff-raff, zoot suit, zig-zag, wishy-washy and 73 more...
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ZZZZZZZZZZ
Words beginning with Z
zoobesity, zoograft, zooerasty, zoon, zoolagnia, zoolatry, zoopsia, zooplasty, zoomorphism, zoonosis, zoonosology, zoolite and 19 more...
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zzzzz...
zingy, zesty words
zephyr, xylophone, zebra, xenobiologist, zed, zaftig, zenith, zero, zilch, zipper, zeppo, zeppelin and 24 more...
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funny & fun to say
flummoxed, flapdoodle, discombobulated, hornswoggle, blabbering, jabberwocky, agog, mugwump, swanky, stumblebum, twit, blunderbusses and 44 more...
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Items of interest.
Physical objects etc.
costrel, pilentum, zoot suit, inkstone, samovar, Snuff Box, carafe, decanter, cinqueda
Tweets
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bilby Briefly revived by David Bowie et al in the '70's. Oct 6, 2008
arcadia So THAT'S what a zoot suit is. Oct 6, 2008
seanahan zoot suit riot Jun 19, 2008
johnmperry A suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed pegged trousers and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. This style of clothing was popularized by Hispanics, Italian Americans, African Americans, and Filipino Americans during the late 1930s and 1940s. Jun 19, 2008