different between zoot vs zoop

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Noun

zoot (plural zoots)

1. (US, slang) A zoot suit.
2. (Britain, slang) A marijuana cigarette.
3. (Britain, slang) PCP; phencyclidine.
4. (Trinidad and Tobago, slang) A cigarette butt.
5. (fandom slang) A fursuit.
   • 1997, "Alterskunk", Spokesfur to appear on BBC Radio (on newsgroup alt.fan.furry)

     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.

   • 1999, "Boomer the Dog", Fursuits appear in the strangest places... (on newsgroup alt.lifestyle.furry)

     It seems some Furries like zoots because they're the closest thing to a live anthro they can find.

Related terms

• zoot suit

References

• Dalzell, Tom; Terry Victor (2008) The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (in English), London and New York: Routledge, ?ISBN

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Noun

zoot

1. soot

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

Imitative; compare zap, zip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Interjection

zoop

1. (colloquial) Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.
   • 1989, Charles A. Murray, Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon (page 223)

     "Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."

   • 1999, School Library Journal (volume 45, issues 1-6, page 180)

     On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop") and heads for the field.

   • 1999, Popular Photography (November 1999)

     And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop, through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works. And this can also happen with inadequate metal tripod sockets […]

Anagrams

• Pozo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?p

Verb

zoop

1. singular past indicative of zuipen