z v.
(US black/teen) to sleep.
![]() | CUSS. | et al.|
![]() | A Bottle of Sandwiches 131: Ernie was still zzzzing away. | |
![]() | Black Jargon in White America 87: z’sing v. sleeping; napping. | |
![]() | Campus Sl. Mar. 7: z-out – to fall asleep. | |
![]() | Sl. and Sociability 30: In college slang out is the most productive particle: [...] z-out ‘go to sleep.’. |
In phrases
(US teen) unable to wake up properly, still sleepy.
![]() | Goodman 2020 90: Anna went once, must have been three hundred people in the room, half of them z’d out beyond hearing. | |
![]() | Flashlight Dream 193: You’re Z’d out, never to return. |