| 释义 |
zoo
noun- the section of a prison where “vulnerable prisoners” are kept for their own safety UK, 1996
In Prison Patter, 1996, Angela Devlin notes that an ANIMAL - a police station US
Citizens’ band radio slang. - — Complete CB Slang Dictionary, p. 99, 1976
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 160, 1981
- in motor racing, the pit area where cars stop for fuelling and repairs US
- — Don Alexander, The Racer’s Dictionary, p. 76, 1980
- a brakevan (caboose) US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 178, 1977
- a notional or actual grouping or assemblage of people; the place where they are assembled UK, 1924
Often mildly contemptuous. - a zoophile, a person with a sexual interest in animals UK
- The bible of these self-labelled zoophiles is a book entitled Dearest Pet (one reader states, “it provides for us zoo’s [sic] a thorough description of our heritage, as it were, dating back to medieval”). — Kathleen Kurik Bryson, Lap Dogs and Other Perversions [Inappropriate Behaviour], p. 48, 2002
▶ the zoo
the North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp formally known as the Cu Loc Prison in Vietnam US- After two weeks they took me to a camp we called the Zoo. — Wallace Terry, Bloods, p. 134, 1984
- From the Zoo I went to Briarpatch, and then I went to Son Tay and came back to the Annex, which was right next to the Zoo. — Harry Maurer, Strange Ground, p. 414, 1989
|