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    [Verb]  | "zip" | \ ˈzip \


    1: to move, act, or function with speed and vigor

    2: to travel with a sharp hissing or humming sound

    3: to impart speed or force to

    Origin: 1852 ;

     Imitative of the sound of a speeding object;

    [Verb]  | "zip" 


    1: to close or open with or as if with a zipper

    2: to enclose or wrap by fastening a zipper

    3: to cause (a zipper) to open or shut

    Origin: 1925 ;

     Back-formation from zipper;

    [Verb]  | "zip-code" | \ ˈzip-ˌkōd \


    1: to furnish with a zip code

    Origin: 1962 ;

    [Noun]  | "zip" 


    1: a sudden sharp hissing or sibilant sound

    2: energy, vim

    Origin: 1862 ;

    [Noun]  | "zip" 


    1: nothing, zero

    Origin: circa 1900 ;

     Origin unknown;

    [Noun]  | "zip" 


    1: zipper

    Origin: 1925 ;

    [Noun]  | "zip" 


    1: zip code

    Origin: 1962 ;

    [Noun]  | "zip code" 


    1: a number that identifies a particular postal delivery area in the U.S.

    2: the geographic area identified by a zip code

    Origin: 1962 ;

     One mprovement lan;

    [Noun]  | "zip fastener" 


    1: zipper

    Origin: 1925 ;

    [Noun]  | "zip gun" 


    1: a crude homemade single-shot pistol

    Origin: 1950 ;

    [Noun]  | "zip" 


    1: active strength of body or mind;


      * e.g., " ... he has surprising zip for a man his age "




    [Noun]  | "zip" 


    1: the numerical symbol 0 or the absence of number or quantity represented by it;


      * e.g., " ... I've got zip as far as new ideas go "



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    [Noun]  | "zip gun" 


    [Noun]  | "zip guns" 


    [Verb]  | "zip" 


    1: to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound;


      * e.g., " ... a dragonfly zipped by my ear "




    2: to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements;


      * e.g., " ... the fly zipped around the room, trying to find a way to the outside "



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    3: to proceed or move quickly;


      * e.g., " ... knowing that she was already late, she went zipping off to meet her next client "



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    [Verb]  | "zip (up)" 


    1: to give life, vigor, or spirit to;


      * e.g., " ... the newscaster asked the writer if there was a way to zip up the story a little "




     [ "zip" ]

    1: An ounce of any kind of illegal drug. Usually used as a code name over the phone by paranoid drug dealers.

      * e.g.,  ... "Can you pick me up a zip?" 

     [ "zip" ]

    1: an ounce of marijuana. Amount that fits in a ziplock bag.

      * e.g.,  ... Got a zip of skunk haze yesterday 

     [ "zip" ]

    1: "a Sicilian. people from Italy. we called them zips cuz they'd zip in and zip out. they didn't like to talk much. they'd only get down to buisness or take care of someone then leave on the next plane out."- Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonnano

      * e.g.,  ... pete-"what about that thing across the way?"  

     [ "zip" ]

    1: 1) An ounce of marijuana 2) To snort a powder drug

      * e.g.,  ... 1) Can I roll by your house and pick up a zip? 2) I just zipped a line of coke 

     [ "zip" ]

    1: zero, nada, nothing

      * e.g.,  ... For this contribution I got zip! 

     [ "zip" ]

    1: (1): nothing; zero

      * e.g.,  ...  - "I don't know zip about you." - There was no mail today. Nothing. Zip. "I need something that will give me more zip. " Khalaf is such a zip. No brains in his head at all. Zip your jacket, Reham. 

     [ "zip" ]

    2: (2): energy; vigor. (3) a worthless person; a person who amounts to zero. (4) to fasten or unfasten with a zipper.

     [ "zip" ]

    1: An extension for compacted files.

     [ "zip" ]

    2: A useful numerical code that traces the city and state.

     [ "zip" ]

    1: A racial slur referring to people of East Asian descent. Most commonly it is a shortened version of the term zipperhead, but may also have a seperate origin as Vietnam War slang, an acronym for "Zero Intelligence Potential", in reference to enemy combatants/civilians (of Southeast Asian descent) that were unlikely to provide any worthwhile intelligence information, ie: just kill them, no reason to interrogate them.

      * e.g.,  ... Veteran Joe: "Learn English ya got-dam zip!" 

     [ "zip" ]

    1: Vietnamese, a Vietnamese. Perjorative and bigoted term used by American soldiers during the Vietnam war. May have originated as an abbreviation of the expression 'zipper-mouth.'

      * e.g.,  ... "Nothin in the vil now but dead zips." 

     [ "zip" ]

    1:  To compress files into .zip format.

      * e.g.,  ... Can you send me that Photoshop file on a Syquest? 

     [ "zip" ]

    2:  An Iomega Zip cartridge.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude, fuhgeddaboudit. Zip it and put it on a zip, and zip it over to me. 

     [ "zip" ]

    3:  To send something easily and quickly. (This is the dictionary definition that predates the other two.)

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