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Verb: zip (zipped,zipping)  zip
  1. Close with a zipper
    "Zip up your jacket--it's cold"
    - zip up, zipper [N. Amer]
     
  2. Move very fast
    "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"
    - travel rapidly, speed, hurry
Noun: zip  zip
  1. A quantity of no importance
    - nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught [archaic], cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught [N. Amer], zero, zilch, zippo [N. Amer]
     
  2. Forceful exertion
    "he's full of zip"
    - energy, vigor [US], vigour [Brit, Cdn]
     
  3. A fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
    - slide fastener, zipper [N. Amer], zip fastener
Noun: ZIP
  1. A code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail
    - ZIP code, postcode, postal code

Derived forms: zipped, zipping, zips

See also: zippy

Type of: code, fasten, fastener, fastening, fix, fixing, force, forcefulness, go, holdfast, locomote, move, relative quantity, secure, strength, travel

Part of: address, cardie [Brit], cardigan, cardy [Brit], dack [Austral, NZ], dak [Austral, NZ], destination, dress, frock, name and address, pant [N. Amer], skirt, trouser

Encyclopedia: ZIP

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