zoot-suited

A non-specific teen gang – they're sort of bikers, sort of punks – hole up in a cabin in the woods; their tepid "partying" has barely got started before they are interrupted by a blood-drenched girl who is channelling some sort of sex-obessed demon; she's hardly taken out before a bunch of zoot-suited crazies from the 1950s turn up for more of the old ultraviolence.

The Violent Kind – review 2011

On the pretext that zoot-suited Mexican-American teens were wearing seditious togs, sailors on leave in Los Angeles went on a rampage in 1943, chasing "pachucos" and ripping the offending jackets and trousers off them.

Hep Cats, Street Fights Eric Felten 2011

He played me a swinging bass line that conjured images of zoot-suited gangsters in 1930s Chicago.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

He played me a swinging bass line that conjured images of zoot-suited gangsters in 1930s Chicago.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

He played me a swinging bass line that conjured images of zoot-suited gangsters in 1930s Chicago.

EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

Corruption is endemic; the average pay of a Russian police officer is 8300 a month, which a zoot-suited boyevik, or mafia soldier, would consider small change at a casino.

Global Mafia 2008

AND, I might add, the book's publisher Night Shade Books home of the one and only zoot-suited Jeremy Lassen just had a great article written about them in Publishers Weekly.

Thanks & Grey 2007

AND, I might add, the book's publisher Night Shade Books home of the one and only zoot-suited Jeremy Lassen just had a great article written about them in Publishers Weekly.

Thanks & Grey 2007

AND, I might add, the book's publisher Night Shade Books home of the one and only zoot-suited Jeremy Lassen just had a great article written about them in Publishers Weekly.

March 2007 2007

Off to the side, dusty zoot-suited figures watched the scurry of activity.

Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984