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zoot suiter

American  

noun

  1. a person who wears a zoot suit.


Etymology

Origin of zoot suiter

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

Example Sentences

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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