Meanings
zoe1
zoe2
present singular third person zoes · participle present zoeing · participle past zoed · past zoed
- fraudster criminal slangTo cheat someone out of money, to rip off.
Yeah, my partner ran off with your money on the Telegram, yeah, you got zoed
2023 April 17, “Deadfacez” (track 3), in Imsickofjun, sharkboy (lyrics), S.O.E. 24 more examples
No man fi get zoed, man fi do the zoeing But these niggas getting spindles don't be knowing […] At the cash register decline, decline Shit not lit, nigga got zoed Not only niggas getting zoed, bitches too Sucking dick for plastic trying to buy some shoes Card declined, now what she gone do Call up the man phone, him egg the call, now she already know The pussy got zoed
2014, Mar Kartel, “You got zoed”I got gang with me Run up on a opp block with a big pole If we warring then I'm leaving him there That's on go Last nigga opened up for the bitch and got zoed
2017 April 18, “ABGS Pt.2” (0:39 from the start), Yungjay (lyrics)Me and my crib, we live by codes He thought it was in, but he got zoed Nigga ain't my friend, tryna beef 'bout hoes Nigga, me and my brothers goin' in on 'bows
2021 May 21, “U Made It Hard” (track 9), in CEO Trayle (lyrics), Stay DangerousI be rollin', rollin', rollin', but you wouldn't know the feelin', though Pop out with your biggest gun, I bet we slide with bigger poles Freakin' on the biggest hoes, these hollows leave the biggest holes He tried to pipe and he got zoed, you see me, better beat your toes
2023 October 2, BabyChiefDoit, “On & On”
plural zoes
- fraudster criminal slangAn instance of getting zoed.
Taking niggas bitches so I might take your ho You ain't even know, that's another zoe Her boyfriend give her money to buy some clothes She over here buying me food and shit That's another zoe nigga get your bitch Same niggas talking bout zoes getting zoed
2014, Mar Kartel, “You got zoed”
Zoe3
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Zoë.
Rosalie smiled faintly, and at the clapping of her hands, the raven-haired Zoe, in all her surpassing beauty, entered the apartment.
1833, Lloyd Wharton Bickley, Zoe, or the Sicilian Sayda: A Romance, Key&Biddle, page 1121 more example
"Who ever heard of a girl named Zoe! You never did yourself." ¶ "I know I never did, Roy Kemble, but just the same I think it is the most beautiful name in the world. It isn't so much what it really means; names don't have to mean anything - it's what it feels like it means.
1921, Fannie Hurst, Stardust, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2007, →ISBN, page 20
Origin
- Ancient Greekζωή“life”
- Englishzoe
From Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”), first distinguished in this particular sense by Giorgio Agamben.
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Cite this entry
zoe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zoe
“zoe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zoe. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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