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zoo

–noun, plural zoos.

1.	Also called zoological garden. a parklike area in which live animals are kept in cages or large enclosures for public exhibition.

2.	Informal. a place, activity, or group marked by chaos or unrestrained behavior.

[Origin: 1840–50; first two syllables of zoological garden taken as one syllable

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n. pl. zoos

A park or an institution in which living animals are kept and usually exhibited to the public. Also called zoological garden.
Slang A place or situation marked by confusion or disorder: The bus station is a zoo on Fridays.

[Short for zoological garden.]

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zoo

c.1847, short for Zoological Gardens of the London Zoological Society, established 1828 in Regent's Park to house the society's collection of wild animals. From comb. form of Gk. zoion "an animal," lit. "a living being," from PIE base *gwei- "to live, life" (cf. Gk. bios "life," O.E. cwicu "living;" see bio-). Slang meaning "crowded and chaotic place" first recorded 1935.

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zoo
noun
the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition [syn: menagerie]

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zoo

see it's a zoo.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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zoo [zuː] noun

(short for zoological garden) a place where wild animals are kept for the public to see, and for study, breeding etc

Arabic:	حَديقَة الحَيوانات
Chinese (Simplified):	动物园
Chinese (Traditional):	動物園
Czech:	zoo
Danish:	zoo; zoologisk have
Dutch:	dierentuin
Estonian:	loomaaed
Finnish:	eläintarha
French:	zoo
German:	der Zoo
Greek:	ζωολογικός κήπος
Hungarian:	állatkert
Icelandic:	dÿragarður
Indonesian:	kebun binatang
Italian:	zoo

Japanese:	動物園
Korean:	동물원
Latvian:	zooloģiskais dārzs
Lithuanian:	zoologijos sodas
Norwegian:	dyrehage, zoologisk hage
Polish:	zoo
Portuguese (Brazil):	jardim zoológico
Portuguese (Portugal):	jardim zoológico
Romanian:	zoo, grădină zoologică
Russian:	зоопарк
Slovak:	zoo
Slovenian:	živalski vrt
Spanish:	zoo, parque zoológico
Swedish:	zoo
Turkish:	hayvanat bahçesi

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zoo tool, file format
A data compression program and format by Rahul Dhesi. Zoo is reported to use the same Lempel Ziv algorithm as LHA. It is available for many platforms and source is available. .zoo archives are handled by many other PC archiving programs.
Version 2.10 was released in 1989. Search the web for zoo210 to obtain an executable.
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