[
UK
/zˈɪp/
]
[ US /ˈzɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈzɪp/ ]
NOUN
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a quantity of no importance
we racked up a pathetic goose egg
reduced to nil all the work we had done
I didn't hear zilch about it
it was all for naught
it looked like nothing I had ever seen before - a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
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forceful exertion
he's full of zip
he plays tennis with great energy
VERB
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move very fast
The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed -
close with a zipper
Zip up your jacket--it's cold
How To Use zip In A Sentence
- If you unzip our sample document and load content.xml into a text editor, you should notice a few things.
- Drop dead gorgeous pictures, a text that's zippy and slick, fun voices, and lots of words like "crick", "crack", and "creak". Archive 2006-04-01
- That includes the ever-popular plum cake, plum pudding and Yule log, marzipans glittering with a coat of sugar, and delightful creations such as nougat, truffle and gateaux.
- I can't manage things like zips, so they took the zips out and put Velcro in instead.
- The aromas and flavours of fresh ripe pineapple are topped with a hint of honey backed by zippy acidity.
- The relationship with her mother, Zippora, née Assur, the daughter of a prosperous merchant family, who had never attended school, became more and more difficult. Fanny Lewald.
- Made of lightweight, durable fabric it has a zip end pocket. The Sun
- I love an aerial zip wire, me. Times, Sunday Times
- I slow the line as it zips through my left hand and the leader begins to unfurl. Times, Sunday Times
- Dropping the towel he tugged on a pair of baggy, black jeans with lots of zippers and safety pins on them.