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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"
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"Zip" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... snob that he never wore badges, displayed celluloid buttons the size of dollars and lettered "We zoom for Zenith." The official delegates were magnificent with silver and magenta ribbons. Martin Lumsen's little boy Willy carried a tasseled banner inscribed "Zenith the Zip City—Zeal, Zest and Zowie—1,000,000 in 1935." As the delegates arrived, not in taxicabs but in the family automobile driven by the oldest son or by Cousin Fred, they formed impromptu processions through ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... I think you are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen,—and the most fascinating. I think you have the sweetest nature and disposition imaginable. I think you have just enough perversity to give you the Zip you need." ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells |
Words linked to "Zip" : name and address, athleticism, sweet Fanny Adams, zoom along, forcefulness, fastening, address, code, cipher, secure, relative quantity, fuck all, strenuosity, unzip, holdfast, bugger all, trouser, cypher, strength, dart, fasten, fix, force, go, pant, zoom, destination, dress, fixing, cardigan, fastener, move, Fanny Adams, naught, locomote, travel, fleet, whizz, flutter, frock, whizz along, skirt, run, nihil, flit |
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