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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
1840–50; first two syllables of zoological garden taken as one syllable
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Zoo
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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zoo-
a combining form meaning “living being,” “animal,” used in the formation of compound words: zoometry; zooplankton.
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Word Origin & History
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;"
EXPANDsee bio-). Slang meaning "crowded and chaotic place" first recorded 1935.
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Medical Dictionary
zoo- or zo-
pref.
Animal; animal kingdom: zoonosis.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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zoo definition
tool, file formatA 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.
Description (http://sources.isc.org/archiver/zoo2.txt).
(2000-07-05)
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
| zoo zoological garden |
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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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