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  • adjective Resembling a zoo or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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zoo +‎ -like

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Examples

  • But although the atmosphere here can fairly be described as zoolike, no actual animals are around to demand their rights.

    Global Village Idiots 2000

  • A zoolike collection of exotic fur coats ( "It's been a bloodbath -- furs are my weakness," she admits) is maintained in labeled cloth bags, while a season's lesser models get relegated to nonslip hangers in the nosebleed back row.

    Anna Dello Russo Has Extra Apartment For Her Clothes (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • I know that many people which is the polite way of saying, "Pretty much everyone here" hates the massive zoolike circus of CES, but I absolutely love the show.

    Robert J. Elisberg: Live from CES: Day One Robert J. Elisberg 2012

  • A zoolike collection of exotic fur coats ( "It's been a bloodbath -- furs are my weakness," she admits) is maintained in labeled cloth bags, while a season's lesser models get relegated to nonslip hangers in the nosebleed back row.

    Anna Dello Russo Has Extra Apartment For Her Clothes (PHOTOS) Hilary Moss 2010

  • I know that many people which is the polite way of saying, "Pretty much everyone here" hates the massive zoolike circus of CES, but I absolutely love the show.

    Robert J. Elisberg: Live from CES: Day One Robert J. Elisberg 2012

  • A zoolike collection of exotic fur coats ( "It's been a bloodbath -- furs are my weakness," she admits) is maintained in labeled cloth bags, while a season's lesser models get relegated to nonslip hangers in the nosebleed back row.

    Anna Dello Russo Has Extra Apartment For Her Clothes (PHOTOS) Hilary Moss 2010

  • After a two-hour layover in the zoolike Benito Juarez International Airport, she boarded a smaller, older aircraft and after one stop in Veracruz, flew across the balmy Bay of Campeche to Merida, arriving there late in the afternoon.

    The Body Ricardo 2010

  • Before this trip I had only seen them barring bird sanctuaries and other zoolike situations on fenceposts or circling in SERIOUSLY rural areas of road trips, the parts where you play corn-corn-soybeans-corn-cows-corn-corn-horses!

    Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

  • The zoolike scenes in that dank, filthy shed it seems that those attending were not even asked to turn off their cell phones or forbidden to use them to record souvenir film were more like a lynching than an execution.

    Saddam’s execution | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007

  • After a two-hour layover in the zoolike Benito Juarez International Airport, she boarded a smaller, older aircraft and after one stop in Veracruz, flew across the balmy Bay of Campeche to Merida, arriving there late in the afternoon.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

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