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noun

Zip n.

A hissing or sibilant sound such as that made by a flying bullet.

A quantity of no importance. (informal)

Synonyms: nothing, nihil, nichts, nix, nada, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, nil, zero, zilch.

A device for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab.

Synonyms: slide fastener, zipper, zip-fastener.

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Etymology of 'Zip'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Zip" Quotes from Famous Books

... car are on ours, or it wouldn't work—that's understood. However, as I said before, I ain't gonna take up your time. I know how you New Yorkers do business, and you've probably made your mind up already. You big men are all zip!—like that. Mind made up and nothin' can change you. Even if you do miss somethin' good now and then, you don't mind because you have the satisfaction of bein' known as a quick thinker. We just got in a new consignment of cars to-day and if you're interested our place is ...

— Alex the Great • H. C. Witwer

... knew the tone of her own instrument—knew, too, that Melinda Jones' hands were sweeping the keys—and all that Melinda Jones had done for her comfort was forgotten in the deep resentment which heated her blood and flushed her cheek as she listened to "Old Zip Coon," which followed "Money-musk," a shuffling sound of feet telling that somebody's boots were keeping time after a very unorthodox fashion. Next came a song—"Old Folks at Home"—and in spite of her resentment Ethelyn found herself listening intently as James' ...

— Ethelyn's Mistake • Mary Jane Holmes

... us lifted the canvas very gently and this Thompson boy started to wriggle under. He was about halfway in when—zip!—like a flash he bodily vanished. He was gone, leaving only the marks where his toes had gouged the soil. Startled, we looked at one another. There was something peculiar about this. Here was a boy who had started into a circus tent in a circumspect, indeed, a highly cautious manner, and then ...

— Cobb's Anatomy • Irvin S. Cobb

... men on the "Zip Coon" Ledge had not got fairly settled to their morning's work. There was the usual lingering hesitation which is apt to attend the taking-up of any regular or monotonous performance, shown in this instance in the prolonged scrutiny of a pick's ...

— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte

... Zip! The vase flew in quite another direction, and next minute had burst over the luckless heads of the three plotting Princes, while Dorothy ...

— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum

Words linked to "Zip" : fastener, vigor, travel rapidly, cipher, trouser, run, go, strength, fix, postal code, cypher, zip fastener, travel, force, skirt, name and address, move, zippo, unzip, fastening, zippy, sweet Fanny Adams, energy, postcode, ZIP code, nothing, frock, zip by, code, null, fleet, holdfast, fixing, secure, Fanny Adams, whizz, bugger all, forcefulness, fuck all, dart, zipper, relative quantity, speed, zoom along, destination