Zip
WordNet
noun
(1) A fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
(2) Forceful exertion
"He plays tennis with great energy"
"He's full of zip"
(3) A code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail
(4) 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"
verb
(5) Close with a zipper
"Zip up your jacket--it's cold"
(6) Move very fast
"The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
- Energy; vigor; vim
- A zip fastener.
Synonyms
whizz, zing slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper (chiefly US)Interjection
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- The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
Verb
- To close with a zip fastener.
- To close as if with a zip fastener.
- zip one's lip
- To convert a computer file into a smaller package.
- (followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
- The bullet zipped through the air.
- (followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
- Zip down to the shops for some milk.
Noun
- Shortened form of ZIP code, the US postal code.
- Any postal code, for any country.