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zips

 
Noun zip has 2 senses
  1. nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip - 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't hear zilch about it"
    --1 is a kind of relative quantity
    --1 has particulars:
     nihil; bugger all, fuck all, Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams
  2. slide fastener, zip, zipper, zip-fastener - a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
    --2 is a kind of fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing
    --2 is a part of
     cardigan; dress, frock; trousers, pants; skirt
    Derived form: verb zip1
Verb zip has 2 senses
  1. zip up, zipper, zip - close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold"
    --1 is one way to fasten, fix, secure
    Derived forms: noun zip2, noun zipper1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip - move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"
    --2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
    Sample sentences:
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s PP
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