[
US
/ˈzɪpoʊ/
]
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
How To Use zippo In A Sentence
- Lobster bisque is solid, but the lobster roll is mushy, gaining zippola from a pepper glaze.
- The only lighter products available are components for re-usable lighters, like a Zippo.
- The premise of the film sounds like that of a particularly macabre Choose Your Own Adventure story -- an American Average Joe is trapped in a coffin somewhere in the Iraqi desert with nothing but a cell phone, a Zippo, and his cajones -- but with killer timing, buckets of low-fi ingenuity, and a stunning one-man show from Reynolds, Cortés is able to craft a riveting bonafide action movie. Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #2: Good Movies, Stupid Plots
- They sat around for a good while scratching their heads and coming up with exactly zippo.
- I checked in on concerned daughter, again zippo.
- His occasional glossy colour leaflet coming through my letterbox is the signal for me to get the Zippo out. Shame on Quentin Davies MP
- ‘My social life is pretty much zippo,’ Maxhimer said.
- He took out a cigarette and lit it with a silver Zippo with what I guessed were his initials, J.M. engraved onto one side.
- The Jews seem to have performed the rite of circumcision with flint implements, for we read in Exodus that Zipporah, the wife of Moses, took a sharp stone for that purpose; and the phrase translated "sharp knives" in Joshua v. 2 -- "At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time" -- should be translated, as in the marginal reference, _knives of flint_. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
- Romano lit another cigarette, took a quick hit, then stubbed it out on the Zippo. BLACKWATER SOUND