zoot suit
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.
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Diamond Street, for instance, was one of the original players in the zoot suit riots in 1942.
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British Dictionary definitions for zoot suit
/ (zuːt) /
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
Origin of zoot suit
1Derived forms of zoot suit
- zoot-suiter, noun
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