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zoo break en · NOUN
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(rare) A breakout by animals from a zoo.
In one of these scenes, Siggy must run for his life, and goes back to Vienna to plan the zoo break.
1998, Josie P. Campbell, John Irving: A Critical Companion, Greenwood Press, →OCLC, page 18:The Herald published a fictitious story of a zoo break, accompanied by pictures of elephants, donkeys, lions and other brothers of the menagerie.
1936, Today: An Independent National Weekly, volume 6, →OCLC, page iv:One night there was a zoo break, and one of the elephants wound up in the young lady's vegetable garden.
1950, The Virginia Spectator, →OCLC, page 8:
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