Z-lister, n.

z-lister
http://www.oed.com/dictionary/z-lister_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_use
First published 2002

# Z-listernoun

## Factsheet

### What does the noun Z-lister mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun Z-lister. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

### Where does the noun Z-lister come from?

Earliest known use

1990s

The earliest known use of the noun Z-lister is in the 1990s.

OED's only evidence for Z-lister is from 1999, in the Sunday Mirror.

### Nearby entries

1. zizyphus, n.?1440–
2. zizz, v. 1883–
3. zizz, int. & n. 1824–
4. zizzing, n. 1884–
5. zizzing, adj. 1919–
6. zizzy, adj. 1843–
7. Zlid, n. 1616–1785
8. Z'life, n. 1689
9. Z line, n. 1916–
10. Z-list, n. & adj. 1979–
11. Z-lister, n.1999–
12. zloty, n. 1915–
13. Zn, n. 1814–
14. -zoa, comb. form
15. -zoan, comb. form
16. zoantharian, adj. & n. 1887–
17. zoanthid, n. 1870–
18. zoanthidan, adj. 1888–
19. zoanthodeme, n. 1877–
20. zoanthoid, adj. 1854–
21. zoanthropic, adj. 1891–

## Meaning & use

colloquial and disparaging (originally U.S.).

1. 1999–
   A person on a (notional) Z-list.
   Stressed as ˈZ-lister.
   1. 1999

      > The Z-listers desperate enough to take part in Night Fever's Abba Special earlier on Channel 5.

      Sunday Mirror 10 October (Features section) 55/1
   U.S. English colloquial and slang disparaging

Originally published as part of the entry for Z-list, n. & adj.

Z-lister, n. was first published in 2002.