zip code

¹

Or ZIP code,

noun

1. a system used in the U.S. to facilitate the delivery of mail, consisting of a five- or nine-digit code printed directly after the address, the first five digits initial code indicating the state and post office or postal zone, the last four expanded code the box section or number, portion of a rural route, building, or other specific delivery location.

zip-code

²

Or ZIP-code,

[zip-kohd]

verb (used with object)

zip-coded, zip-coding 

1. to provide or mark with a zip code.

   Zip-code all mail.

zip code

noun

1. the US equivalent of postcode

Word History and Origins

Origin of zip code¹

An Americanism first recorded in 1960–65, Z(one) I(mprovement) P(rogram)

Word History and Origins

Origin of zip code¹

C20: from z ( one ) i ( mprovement ) p ( lan )

Example Sentences

Five of them during that period, including Fedrick’s, were reported in a stretch of neighborhoods long known as Jacksonville’s “deadliest ZIP Code.”

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The study used ZIP Code data to control for the influence of wealth, but it isn’t a perfect proxy.

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Burt had the most sensational information, and models to analyze that information—he could tell you, for example, what would happen to mortgage loans, zip code by zip code, in various house price scenarios.

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Those biological results were then compared with three national tools that measure neighborhood conditions by zip code: the Area Deprivation Index, the Social Vulnerability Index, and the Environmental Justice Index.

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He might not get another pitch in the same ZIP Code as home plate.

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