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▪ I. zit slang (chiefly N. Amer.).|zɪt|
[Origin unknown.]
A pimple. Also in extended and fig. use. Occas. in Comb.
1966G. C. Sauer Man. Skin Dis. (ed. 2) 284 Zits, term in teen-agers' vernacular for ‘pimples’ of acne. 1966Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) Summer 5 Zit, something bad or unpleasant; crude... What's that zit on your coat? 1972B. Rodgers Queens' Vernacular 45 Vit (late '60s, fr. sl. zit = a pimple: boy with Pepsi consciousness, i.e. nothing going on between the ears). 1975Atlantic Monthly Mar. 51 One splendid effort in 1971 featured..districts with remarkable pimples in their boundary lines, zits that popped up to include the home of one liberal incumbent in the district of another liberal incumbent. 1975Maclean's Mag. June 59/1 When did you last have a zit on your face? 1977Amer. Speech 1975 L. 69 Zit n, reddish mark caused by kissing. ‘She has a big zit on her neck.’ 1977J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) vi. 77 How old is the little zit-faced, coke-snorting, hash-smoking son of a bitch? 1980Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Apr. 46/3 (caption) You know playing with teenagers will give you zits. 1984S. Townsend Growing Pains A. Mole 105 Forgot to send you an invite, zit face, but come anyway, dress as a warlock or you won't get in.
▸ zitty adj.
1991Orlando Sentinel (Nexis) 7 Apr. 1 We've got 1,400 *zitty kids with Dwayne Schintzius haircuts just a-bursting to get out of school. 2000R. Topping Kevin & Perry go Large xi. 101 They both knew in their heart of hearts that beneath the zitty, sunburnt, greasy and slightly sulky-looking exteriors lay a couple of totty-tastic, horno-mongous club babes waiting to get out.
▪ II. zit(te, zitch
see sit v., such. |