Zoo vs Zot - What's the difference?
zoo | zot |
A park where live animals are exhibited.
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(slang) To zap, kill, or destroy.
* 1980 , Kit Reed, Magic time
* 1997 , "Matt Lepinski", Zotting'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.humor.oracle.d )
* 1997 , "Terry Moore", COPS PUT LIVES ON LINE?'' (on Internet newsgroup ''austin.general )
* 1998 , "RosieDawg", watergardening and dogs and Rosie's new toy, OT-ish'' (on Internet newsgroup ''rec.ponds )
(US) The characteristic sound made by an anteater's tongue or by lightning.
As nouns the difference between zoo and zot
is that zoo is a park where live animals are exhibited while zot is an anteater.As a verb zot is
to zap, kill, or destroy.As an interjection zot is
the characteristic sound made by an anteater's tongue or by lightning.zoo
English
(wikipedia zoo)Noun
(en noun)Nick Miroff
Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […], passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.}}
Derived terms
* like feeding time at the zoo * morning zoo * particle zoo * petting zoo * zoo formatzot
English
Etymology 1
A sound effect. Popularized by the , a humorous Internet advice service, where the word was used as an irritated dismissal of a question.Verb
(en-verb)- I reached for the handle and it zotted me — an electric shock to the elbow.
- I've heard rumors about the oracle zotting people and I have these questions about zot?
- When a taxi driver, convenience store clerk, pizza deliverer, etc., gets zotted , it is on the back page of the local newspaper and not in out of town newspapers at all.
- electric fence - zotting me was fine (well really!) but they were worried about zotting the several dozen human puppies that hang around at our house.