zoot suiter

noun

1. a person who wears a zoot suit.

Word History and Origins

Origin of zoot suiter¹

First recorded in 1940–45; zoot suit + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The Los Angeles Herald-Express ran a story on how to “de-zoot” a zoot suiter: “Grab a zooter. Take off his pants and frock coat and tear them up or burn them.”

From Los Angeles Times

Valdez first used the character of a zoot suiter to represent La Luna, the Moon, in his allegorical play “Bernabé.”

From Los Angeles Times

Chavez, a music-loving zoot suiter in his youth who never passed an opportunity to scour a record store, understood the power of songs and art when it came to amplifying his message of fighting for better working and living conditions for the campesinos in California’s fertile fields.

From Los Angeles Times

By essentially living in this custom-made beauty, Bichir stays constantly connected to El Pachuco, the impeccably dressed host, narrator and mythic zoot suiter he portrays in Luis Valdez’s play about Mexican American devotees of zoot suit style who were arrested and tried en masse after a 1942 Los Angeles killing. 

From Los Angeles Times

And this Brother Tod Clifton, the youth leader, looked somehow like a hipster, a zoot suiter, a sharpie—except his head of Persian lamb's wool had never known a straightener.

From Literature