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Zero wearing a tweed jacket and pretending it's not just zero.
means The number zero, or nothing at all, in chiefly British and old-fashioned usage.
from From Old English nawiht, a smush of na (no) and wiht (thing) — literally no thing, the original nothing.
Sibling wordNaught means worthlessness, same ancestor, different attitude.
Game named for itNoughts and crosses is British tic-tac-toe.
Decade nicknameThe 2000s were dubbed the noughties.