Reading the Merriam Webster Dictionary Backwards
September 5, 2014 Friday
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zoot suit [derivation: sounds like the word 'suit']
from the 1940's; a long jacket, wide shoulders, pants that were wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. See Lawrence Block, "a rest pleat with a drape sheet."
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