Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also double zero) a nobody, a totally useless and insignificant person.

1883		H.S. Ashbee diary entry in Gibson Erotomaniac (2001) 95: K[istemaeckers] rather noisy, and Flammarion an intelligent, rather quiet man, Mme F a zero.
1934		H. Miller Tropic of Cancer (1963) 78: I’m lying there on the iron bed thinking what a zero I have become.
1946		W. Winchell 29 Mar. [synd. col.] A youthful thrush tried to kill herself over one of those mid-town zeroes.
1959		J. Thompson Getaway in Four Novels (1983) 10: A big fat zero, that’s you.
1967		W. Murray Sweet Ride 63: The old man was a big zero.
1979		(con. 1960) Pepper & Pepper Straight Life 246: The story of Diane – The Great Zeeeero.
1986		H.B. Gilmour Pretty in Pink 70: She was nothing, worth nothing. A zoid, a zombie, a big zero.
1988		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 10: vacant lot [...] Also double zero.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 163: He knows fuckin nothing. The big zero.
2000		W. Shaw Westsiders 347: He was just a zero, a loser.
2012		D. O’Donnell Locked Ward (2013) 147: That’s what uncool dudes can’t fathom. You know? Like religious zeroes.

2. nothing.

1929		C. McKay Banjo 318: ‘You can’t quit now.’ ‘Nix and a zero for what I kain’t do.’.
1976		P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 206: Basketball’s nothing. An absolute zero.
2003		J. Ellroy ‘Stephanie’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 57: Shit: no matches, more zeros.
2015		S. King Finders Keepers (2016) 369: ‘Not that you can do much with it right?’ ‘Zero. Zippo. Zilch’.
2016		A. Wheatle Crongton Knights 7: ‘That ain’t gonna do zero nish!’.

3. (US black) the vagina, sexual intercourse [the 0 shape, or misogyny].

1985

T.R. Houser Central Sl.

4. an insignificant, unimpressive place.

2003

J. Lethem Fortress of Solitude 172: The area is a big zero in most senses, a region of lack.