zip

Plural: zips

Noun

• a quantity of no importance
• a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail
• forceful exertion
  • "he's full of zip"
• a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
• The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
• Energy; vigor; vim.
• A zip fastener.
• Zero; nothing.
• A trip on a zipline.
• A zip file.
• Synonym of convolution (“type of mapping function”).
• An ounce of marijuana.
• Ellipsis of zip code.

Verb

Verb Forms: zipped, zipping, zips

• To move very quickly or to fasten with a zipper.
• close with a zipper
  • "Zip up your jacket--it's cold"
• move very fast
  • "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"
• To close with a zip fastener.
• To close as if with a zip fastener.
• To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
• To subject to the convolution mapping function.
• To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
• To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
• To make (something) move quickly
• To travel on a zipline.
• To offer a list of alternately male and female candidates in an attempt to address the shortage of women.

Intj

• Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.

Examples

• He watched his opponent ZIP through their turn, confident in their high-scoring word.
• I know zip about economics.
• The bullet zipped through the air.
• Zip down to the shops for some milk.

Synonyms

aught, cipher, cypher, energy, goose egg, hurry, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, postal code, postcode, slide fastener, speed, travel rapidly, vigor, vigour, zero, zilch, ZIP code, zip fastener, zip up, zipper, zippo, convolution, whee, whizz, zing

Antonyms

unzip

Related Words

zip coon

Anagrams of zip