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zoot suit orig. U.S. slang.|ˈzuːt s(j)uːt|
[Redupl. rhyming formation on suit n.]
1. A type of man's suit of exaggerated style popular in the 1940s (orig. worn by U.S. Blacks), characterized by a long, draped jacket with padded shoulders, and high-waisted tapering trousers.
1942Gilbert & O'Brien Zoot Suit (song) 3, I want a Zoot Suit with a reat pleat, with a drape shape. 1942[see reet a.]. 1949R. Chandler Little Sister xxix. 218 Taking knives away from grease-balls in zoot suits. 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris xv. 269, I saw a few Zoot suits, please believe me, on Negroes headed for the bar at No. 12. 1969Time 14 July 16/2 Chavez became a pachuco, affecting a zoot suit with pegged pants. 1982B. Fantoni Stickman xxix. 206 Two coloured tap dancers in dazzling yellow zoot suits. 1984Guardian 5 Oct. 3/1 Baggy zoot suits and skinhead styles have revived the adult market.
2. transf. in various Mil. uses. Chiefly U.S.
1943Yank 15 Oct. 3 Some of the Japs even wore our jungle ‘zoot suits’. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. 158 Zoot suit (which, of course, came originally from U.S. jive slang) for the crude civilian clothes given to discharged servicemen. 1952D. Clarke Eleventh at War xvii. 416 The warm ‘tank suits’..were soon known to the troops as ‘zoot suits’, and were aptly described as a ‘mass of zip⁓fasteners joined together by windproof and waterproof material’. An ingenious manipulation of the zips could convert the zoot suit into a sleeping-bag. 1975H. White Raincoast Chronicles (1976) 144/1 Bernie Grimes, older veteran of the first, wartime zootsuit gangs.
Hence zoot-suited a., dressed in a zoot suit; zoot-suiter, a zoot-suited person; spec. one of a group or gang of young men wearing zoot suits.
1969Zoot-suited [see crash-helmeted adj. s.v. crash n.1 7 a]. 1971A. Price Alamut Ambush ix. 105 We met at poor old David's nuptials—you were one of the zoot-suited ushers, weren't you?
1943Chicago Daily News 12 June 6/2 A new human variety has excited the populace [in California]—the ‘zoot suiters’. 1952Zoot-suiter [see daddy-o]. 1972J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) i. 18 It was almost twenty years [ago]... It was real bad then. We had B-girls and zoot-suiters and lots of crooks. |
