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zip
1[ zip ]
noun
- a sudden, brief hissing sound, as of a bullet.
Wow, you've got zip today—too much coffee this morning?
verb (used without object)
- to move with a zipping sound.
- Informal. to act or move with speed or energy:
I'll just zip upstairs.
verb (used with object)
- to convey with speed and energy:
I'll zip you downtown on my motorcycle.
- to add vitality or zest to (usually followed by up ):
A little garlic zips up a salad.
zip
2[ zip ]
verb (used with object)
- to fasten or unfasten with a zipper: Zip open the traveling case.
Zip your jacket.
Zip open the traveling case.
- to enclose or free by doing up or undoing a zipper:
Zip this money into your wallet. Zip me out of my dress.
- Computers. to compress (a file) in archive format, so it requires less memory to save and store it.
verb (used without object)
- to become fastened or unfastened by means of a zipper:
a handy purse that zips shut.
- to do up or undo a zipper.
noun
adjective
- utilizing or having a zipper:
a coat with a zip front.
- Computers. of or relating to a method of file compression:
a zip file.
zip
3[ zip ]
noun
- zero or nothing:
The score of last night's hockey game was 4–zip.
verb (used with object)
- (in sports) to defeat by keeping an opponent from scoring:
The home team was zipped again yesterday.
zip
4[ zip ]
noun
Zip
5[ zip ]
- a floppy disk form of storage for computer data with a capacity of 100–750 MB, used primarily in the 1990s:
a Zip drive;
a Zip disk.
Zip
1/ zɪp /
noun
- an electric water heater
zip
2/ zɪp /
noun
- Also calledzip fastener a fastening device operating by means of two parallel rows of metal or plastic teeth on either side of a closure that are interlocked by a sliding tab US and Canadian termzipper
- modifier having or equipped with such a device
a zip bag
- a short sharp whizzing sound, as of a passing bullet
- informal.energy; vigour; vitality
- slang.nothing
- slang.sport nil
verb
- troften foll byup to fasten (clothing, a bag, etc) with a zip
- intr to move with a zip
the bullet zipped past
- intr; often foll by along, through, etc to hurry; rush
they zipped through town
- tr computing to compress (a file) in order to reduce the amount of memory required to store it or to make sending it electronically quicker
Other Words From
- zipless adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of zip1
Origin of zip3
Origin of zip4
Word History and Origins
Origin of zip1
Example Sentences
It zips like all comedies seem to zip today, quick and nimble, its tone affectionate snark.
These drugs interfere with the double helix zip-unzip-zip-again process of RNA and DNA replication.
“Type in your ZIP code and blood drives close to you will come up,” Dudley said.
Then, the big goose egg that the administration is going to get from Iran will more obviously be a zip.
Federal Election Commission reports for both men are littered with D.C. and New York ZIP codes.
The rifle-bullets were whizzing so zip, zip from the sharpshooters on the Federal lines that involuntarily I moved on my chair.
"Zip" came a bullet, and hit the ground beside me; it seemed rather unfair when one thought one was well out of range.
They found Zip well and hearty in spite of having had a drop of at least forty feet off the glacier.
Susy's mocking-bird hung in a cage by one of the windows, and "brother Zip" was lounging in an arm-chair, catching flies.
I ought to tell about the fire; but I can't write with mother's pen any more than Zip can write with a sponge.
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