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zot v. They then called in aircraft that were equipped with laser illuminators, like the Pave Nails, which zotted the guns. Orbiting fighters then dropped the laser-guided bombs. [ Language English] [full cite] (Jan. 9, 2006)

zot v. I keep remembering the scene from “Independence Day” where all those people who’d crowded to the top of a tall building to welcome the aliens were among the first to get zotted. [ Language English] [full cite] (Jan. 9, 2006)

zuke n. Besides the locally grown “zuke,” as the vegetable is affectionately known, there are pageants for boys and girls that will choose, for instance, the Duke of Zuke and the festival’s Zuqueenie. [English Food & Drink Plant-life Abbreviation] [full cite] (May. 5, 2007)

zula n. The Jewish soldier has had to invent a colorful language to express such extreme emotional states as shvizut (state of being depressed, dispirited, and fed up with everything; literally: “broken penis”) and zula (an ultimate state of being relaxed and laid back). [Hebrew Israel] [full cite] (Dec. 6, 2004)

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