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zoot suit
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zoot suit  (zt)
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.
[Probably from an alteration of suit.]
zoot-suiter (ztstr) n.
zoot suit [zuːt]
n
(Clothing & Fashion) Slang a man's suit consisting of baggy trousers with very tapered bottoms and a long jacket with wide padded shoulders, popular esp in the US in the 1940s
[of uncertain origin; perhaps an arbitrary rhyme on suit]
zoot-suiter  n
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Noun1.zoot suit - a flashy suit of extreme cutzoot suit - a flashy suit of extreme cut        
suit, suit of clothes - a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color; "they buried him in his best suit"
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