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Meaning zip meaning

What does zip mean?
Definitions in simple English

zip

A zip is a sound made by a small object. Zip! A zip is a short form of zipper. Is the zip on your coat working.

zip

To zip is to move quickly. The birds zip from tree to tree. To zip is to close a zipper. Zip up your coat before going outside.

zip

(= zip up, zipper) close with a zipper Zip up your jacket--it's cold (= slide fastener) a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab (= energy) forceful exertion he plays tennis with great energy he's full of zip (= speed) move very fast The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed (= nothing, nil, goose egg, naught, zilch) a quantity of no importance it looked like nothing I had ever seen before reduced to nil all the work we had done we racked up a pathetic goose egg it was all for naught I didn't hear zilch about it

ZIP

(= ZIP code) a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail

Synonyms zip synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as zip?

ZIP English » English

postal code ZIP code postcode

Topics zip topics

What do people use zip to talk about?

Conjugation zip conjugation

How do you conjugate zip?

zip · verb

Examples zip examples

How do I use zip in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Look at your trousers! Zip them up.
Can you tell me what the zip code is for New York?
Mary asked Tom to zip up her dress.
Aarhus, the second-largest city in Denmark, has the zip code 8000.
In today's world, we have to equip all our kids with an education that prepares them for success, regardless of what they look like, or how much their parents make, or the zip code that they live in.
Don't forget to write the zip code.
In reality, it is only held together by duct-tape and zip-ties.
I'll charge you 1000 pesetas to repair the zip on these jeans.
Zip up!
Help me zip up my dress.
Can you zip up my dress?
Could you please zip up my dress?
Zip your lip.

Movie subtitles

Zip it!
Zip it! Josh, it smells like something died in here.
Take a trip with lots of zip.
Here, zip me up will you Frank?
Yeah, but I bust my zip.
Zip her up.
Go zip yourself up.
Zip it up, now.
Do up my zip.
Zip guns?
Gee, could a real zip gun make you do like that?
No, the zip gun could make you do.
Will you zip me up, please?
Boy, look at him zip along!
Here, zip me up, will you?
I had zip, class, pep, a future.
Here, zip me up, will you, Frank?
Fred? - We'd be glad to help you zip it up, baby.
We need someone with more pep, zip.
You watch me zip through the paperwork.
And zip your lip out there, you hear?
Officer, would you zip my dress up?
Well, zip and I'm gone.
Zip me up, will you, please?
It's that famous zip girl of the screen.. thedarlingof theflapperset.. ZeldaZanders!
Zip me up, will you, Carl?
Here two zip.
Why don't you zip up your jacket.
There he was coming out the front door, zip bag and everything.
Zip me up.
Zip it, right in here, right over home plate.
I even gave him your zip code.

News and current affairs

Already, Facebook users can export all of their personal data as a zip file simply by clicking a link on their profiles.
Higgs and his colleagues suggested that every elementary particle really is massless, just as the mathematical models require, and hence all particles would ordinarily zip around at the speed of light.