zot
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of zot
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(slang, transitive)To zap, kill, or destroy.
“I reached for the handle and it zotted me — an electric shock to the elbow.”
“I've heard rumors about the oracle zotting people and I have these questions about zot?”
“When a taxi driver, convenience store clerk, pizza deliverer, etc., gets zotted, it is on the back page of the local newspaper and not in out of town newspapers at all.”
“electric fence - zotting me was fine (well really!) but they were worried about zotting the several dozen human puppies that hang around at our house.”
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verb
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(slang, transitive)To zap, kill, or destroy.
“I reached for the handle and it zotted me — an electric shock to the elbow.”
“I've heard rumors about the oracle zotting people and I have these questions about zot?”
“When a taxi driver, convenience store clerk, pizza deliverer, etc., gets zotted, it is on the back page of the local newspaper and not in out of town newspapers at all.”
“electric fence - zotting me was fine (well really!) but they were worried about zotting the several dozen human puppies that hang around at our house.”
noun
- (US, slang)An anteater.
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(South-Africa, Zimbabwe, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur)A black person.
“Regretfully there is nothing that can be done about things .. just a time bomb ticking, ticking, ticking .. until one day soon, the zots will decide to take a property here, and a property there (they have after all started with vacant land and been successful), so why not progress to property?”
“(SA) ¶ The government has TACITLY condoned the actions of the zots by allowing them to continue their illegal occupation. (Zimbabwe) ¶ The government condoned the illegal activities and progressed to the point where they were actively supporting it.”
“The zots will destroy the barns, the homesteads, the tractors, everything - reducing them to their component parts without the aid of explosives.”
- (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of zonula occludens toxin, a secretion of Vibrio cholerae.
intj
- (US)The characteristic sound made by an anteater's tongue or by lightning.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
A sound effect. Popularized by the Usenet Oracle, a humorous Internet advice service, where the word was used as an irritated dismissal of a question.
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