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Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Third Edition; Tony Thorne (A & C Black, 2005)

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zow

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‘Are we just going to wait until one more hooker gets zotzed?’

(I Love A Man In Uniform, Canadian film, 1994)

zow n South African

a yokel or an oaf. Recorded as an item of Sowetan slang in the Cape Sunday Times, 29 January 1995.

z’s n American

sleep. From the use of ‘z’ to indicate the rasping sound of snores, hence sleep, in cartoons. The word, when pronounced in the American way, is usually part of phrases such as ‘grab/cop some z’s’.

zucchini n American

the penis. This Italian term for cour-

gettes is also used throughout North America to refer to the vegetable in its singular form. In addition to its culinary usage, it is also a fairly widespread jocularism for the male member.

zulu n, adj British

(a person who is) black. A term of abuse current, for instance, in the army in the 1980s.

’zup? question form, exclamation American

an abbreviated form of ‘what’s up?’ This greeting or question was fashionable in teenage speech of the 1990s.

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