zoonoun/zuː/

• 1

  A park where live animals are exhibited.

  • The London Zoo was built in 1828.
  • The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
• 2

  informalAny place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.

  • The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.
• 3

  informalA large and varied collection of something.

  • After his insightful book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Spoto published The Dark Side of Genius, a portrayal of the elderly director as a lonely man who was a veritable zoo of desires, suspicions, fears, and addictions (food, drink, romantic infatuation, and filmmaking).
  • From this point on, an entire zoo of possibilities arose: strange stars, different families of neutron stars, hybrid stars, etc.
• 4

  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsThe jungle.

  • 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.
• 5

  informalClipping of zoophile.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• zoophile