zoot suit

[zoot]

noun

1. 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.

zoot suit

/ zuːt /

noun

1. 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

Other Word Forms

• zoot-suiter noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of zoot suit¹

1940–45, rhyming compound based on suit

Word History and Origins

Origin of zoot suit¹

C20: of uncertain origin; perhaps an arbitrary rhyme on suit