zipper

Plural: zippers

Noun

• a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
• A zip fastener.
• A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
• A leucine zipper.
• A scar on a person's body.
• An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.
• A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
• A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
• A zipline.

Verb

Verb Forms: zippered, zippering, zippers

• To fasten something using a zipper.
• close with a zipper
• to close a zipper.
• to put a zipper on an article.

Examples

• He could almost hear the letters ZIPPER together, forming his winning word in Scrabble.
• He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.

Synonyms

slide fastener, zip, zip fastener, zip up

Antonyms

unzip

Anagrams of zipper