Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A park or an institution in which living animals are kept and usually exhibited to the public.
- noun Slang A place or situation marked by confusion or disorder.
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- noun A
park wherelive animals areexhibited . - noun figuratively Any place that is
wild ,crowded , orchaotic .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So, everyone sing a long please- *We're all going to the Zoo..zoo.. we're all going to the zoo!
Archive 2009-04-01 Bob Lock 2009
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So, everyone sing a long please- *We're all going to the Zoo..zoo.. we're all going to the zoo!
We're all going to the Zoo...zoo we're all going to the zoo (Cern Zoo) Nemo Nine Bob Lock 2009
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Yann Martel: John, a zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation.
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Another interesting place was the Dead City, where Egyptians have been buried for centuries, the designs are glorious and huge some as big as several of our houses put together, the zoo is also great.
Ron Cridge 2010
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Yet while the zoo is a memory for most, the remains of the zoo is still moldering up there near the Canadian border, just waiting for brave souls to explore its cold husk.
The Belle Isle Zoo – Where the Wild Things Aren’t - The Retroist 2010
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Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails. john: I guess you can say that if a zoo is a jail, then so is civilization a jail for humans.
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Considering that a zoo is an artificially controlled place and the job of a zoo keeper is to protect its animals, the words * nature* and * natural* don't seem to fit into the equation very well.
Zoo Officials Let Two Sick Polar Bear Cubs Get Eaten By Their Baby Momma 2008
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A trip to the zoo is a great day out, until a date goes tragically wrong and Ianto is badly injured by stolen alien tech.
Sci-Fi Book Releases for October (UK) Mark 2008
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Yes, it's -5 degrees, but a lot of the stuff at our zoo is actually indoors.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008
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The zoo is not too big, the paths are pretty narrow, giving it a very intimate feel.
Tenerife, lost count of the days nathreee 2010
bilby commented on the word zoo
Overheard-on-internet joke:
A man goes to a zoo. He walks around all the enclosures and they're empty. The only animal there is a dog. It's a shitzu.
February 12, 2016
yarb commented on the word zoo
Are you here all week Bilby? Should I try the shrimp?
February 15, 2016
qms commented on the word zoo
And then that too disappeared. A doggone shame.
February 15, 2016
bilby commented on the word zoo
I did say it was an internet joke.
February 15, 2016