Zoot suit
a man’s suit with baggy, tight-cuffed, sometimes high-waisted trousers and an oversized jacket with exaggeratedly broad, padded shoulders and wide lapels, often worn with suspenders and a long watch chain and first popularized in the early 1940s.
contemporary examples
diamond street, for instance, was one of the original players in the zoot suit riots in 1942.
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noun
(slang) a man’s suit consisting of baggy trousers with very tapered bottoms and a long jacket with wide padded shoulders, popular esp in the us in the 1940s
n.
1942, american english slang, the first element probably a nonsense reduplication of suit (cf. reet pleat, drape shape from the same jargon).
verb phrase
to concentrate or focus on something or someone to the exclusion of other things:
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