zoot suit
[ zoot ]
/ zut /
noun
a man's suit with baggy, tight-cuffed, sometimes high-waisted trousers and an oversized jacket with exaggeratedly broad, padded shoulders and wide lapels, often worn with suspenders and a long watch chain and first popularized in the early 1940s.
Origin of zoot suit
1940–45,
Americanism; rhyming compound based on
suit
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British Dictionary definitions for zoot suit
zoot suit
/ (zuːt) /
noun
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
Derived forms of zoot suit
zoot-suiter, nounWord Origin for zoot suit
C20: of uncertain origin; perhaps an arbitrary rhyme on
suit