zoo
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /zuː/
zoo (plural zoos)
- A park where live animals are exhibited.
- (informal, figuratively) Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
- The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.
- (US, military, slang) The jungle.
- 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)
- I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.
- 2013, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, My Vietnam War (page 152)
- French: zoo
- German: Zoo, Tiergarten, Tierpark
- Italian: zoo
- Portuguese: zoológico, jardim zoológico
- Russian: зоопа́рк
- Spanish: zoo, jardín zoo, zoológico
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