zip

noun10

1. •
   (UK, Commonwealth) a device with two rows of teeth that closes and opens clothes or a bag when pulled

   • Catrin: What sort of doctor wears a suit? My doctor wears a fleece. Can see his nasty little chest hairs poking through the zip… — 2010
2. •
   (slang) Zero; nothing.

   • I know zip about economics.
3. •
   Ellipsis of zip code.
4. •
   (informal) A zip file.
5. •
   (informal) Energy; vigor; vim.
6. •
   The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
7. •
   A trip on a zipline.
8. •
   (slang) An ounce of marijuana.
9. •
   Synonym of convolution (“a type of mapping function”).
10. •
    Synonym of zip zap zop

verb9

1. •
   to close something such as a jacket or bag by pulling a small handle along two rows of plastic or metal teeth so that they lock together
2. •
   (figurative) To close as if with a zip fastener.

   • Zip your lip!
3. •
   To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.

   • The bullet zipped through the air.
4. •
   (informal) to go somewhere quickly

   • Zip down to the shops for some milk.
5. •
   to pack one or several computer files into one file, usually compressing them so that they take up less space
6. •
   To make (something) move quickly

   • Tottenham also initially struggled to create genuine goal-scoring opportunities, with Bale, Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart zipping passes around to little effect. — 2011
7. •
   To travel on a zipline.
8. •
   (UK) to arrange a political party's list of candidates by putting a woman in every other place, in order to get more women elected
9. •
   to join two or more lists in a computer program into one list of groups, each holding the items at the same position in every list

exclamation1

1. •
   Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.

   • `Zip!' Just like that, an exquisitely shaped fragment of a flashing rainbow in flight flits across in front of us[.] — 1934

noun2

1. •
   (US) A zip code.
2. •
   (informal) A zip file.

noun1

1. •
   (slang, offensive) A Sicilian or Italian Mafioso who is relatively new to the United States.

   • The proprietor was a "Zip" — a Sicilian-born mobster — who was running a gambling operation that cut into Godfather Gotti's turf. — 1988