Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black/campus) under the influence of drink or drugs.

1982		Eble Campus Sl. Fall 5: zootied – an ultimate high from smoking reefer.
1984		Eble Campus Sl. Sept. 8: zooted – drunk.
1989		(con. 1982–6) T. Williams Cocaine Kids (1990) 108: At first people came after they left the first house, and most of them was already zooted up [high].
1990		Press Democrat (Santa Rosa) 25 May A9/1: School Slang [...] Zootie’ (high or crazy).
1993		E. Richards Cocaine True 88: With the methadone, Mariella would be groovy-bang; zooted.
2002		‘Touré’ Portable Promised Land (ms.) 163: He smokes six to eight fat joints a day. ‘If I ain’t zooted, I’m in paaain.’.
2010		Kid Cudi ‘Ashin’ Kusher’ 🎵 I be like, ‘Fuck it, nigga, I was probably zooted!’.
2012		J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 98: I might have been zooted out of my gourd most of the time.