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Zip   /zɪp/   Listen
Zip

noun
1.
A quantity of no importance.  Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zippo.  "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"
2.
A code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail.  Synonyms: postal code, postcode, ZIP code.
3.
Forceful exertion.  Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour.  "He's full of zip"
4.
A fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab.  Synonyms: slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper.
verb
1.
Close with a zipper.  Synonyms: zip up, zipper.
2.
Move very fast.  Synonyms: hurry, speed, travel rapidly.



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"Zip" Quotes from Famous Books



... were in no small danger. Zip! A tiny pebble whirred past with the force almost of a bullet. Lop-Ear and I began paddling frantically. Whiz-zip-bang! Lop-Ear screamed with sudden anguish. The pebble had struck him between the shoulders. Then I got one and yelled. The only thing that ...
— Before Adam • Jack London

... shoulders over his log as he watched. He forgot himself in this moment when he was looking upon men running into the face of death. In another moment came the crash of rifles muffled behind log walls. He could hear the whine of bullets, the ZIP, ZIP, ZIP of them back ...
— God's Country--And the Woman • James Oliver Curwood

... neck on the back of his chair, slipped a fresh stick of gum between his teeth, hung his hat on his knee, and prepared to view his work with critical mind and impartial, and with his conscience like his body at ease. The thing had certainly started off with zip enough, since zip was what Mart claimed ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower

... make it, others will; So I'll keep up my death-drugged still. Come, Zip, my boy, pile on the wood, And make it blaze as blaze it should; For I do heartily love to see The flames dance round it merrily! "Hogsheads, you want?-well, order them made; The maker will take his pay in trade. If, at the first, he will not consent, Treat him with wine till ...
— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams

... Bill shouted. "You're the lad again that was fresh from the schools, knew what he wanted, and went after it. Dick, I've been kind of worried about you since we came here," the veteran went on, in a softer tone of voice. "You ain't been like the old Dick. You ain't had the zip! It's as if you were afraid all the time of losing Sloan's money, and it worried you. And sometimes—now, I don't want you to get sore and cuss me—it seemed to me as if your mind wa'n't altogether on the job! As if ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton


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