Definitions
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- adjective dated, informal
stylish ,flashy ,snappy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sometimes, the "zooty" was my pharm-fueled metronome as I danced dementedly through a gauzy awareness in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Diplomat.
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My brother explained to me that these hep cats were new on the scene and zooty-er than any of the original zoot suiters.
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From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up.
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I've had four horses down with the 'zooty, and two men laid up with dip'thery.
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