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UK/zɪp/ US/ˈzɪp/ fairly common informal slang uk us
verb (2) noun (2)

verb

1.

close with a zipper

  • “Zip up your jacket--it”
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2.

move very fast

  • “The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed”
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noun

1.

a quantity of no importance

  • “it looked like nothing I had ever seen before”
  • “reduced to nil all the work we had done”
  • “we racked up a pathetic goose egg”
  • “it was all for naught”
  • “I didn”
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2.

Origin

Onomatopoeic.

Phrases

  • zip bomb
  • zip cuffs
  • zip down
  • Zip drive
  • zip file
  • zip gun
  • zip it
  • zip line

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