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Zip   /zɪp/   Listen
Zip

noun
1.
A quantity of no importance.  Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zippo.  "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"
2.
A code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail.  Synonyms: postal code, postcode, ZIP code.
3.
Forceful exertion.  Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour.  "He's full of zip"
4.
A fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab.  Synonyms: slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper.
verb
1.
Close with a zipper.  Synonyms: zip up, zipper.
2.
Move very fast.  Synonyms: hurry, speed, travel rapidly.



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"Zip" Quotes from Famous Books



... reports, and congratulated himself on the realistic qualities of his little drama. Then suddenly his hat went spinning from his head. At the same instant a bullet ploughed through the leather on his pommel. Zip! zip! went other bullets past his ears. The boys of Triangle X outfit were beginning to ...
— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White
... portion of the narrative that exhibits to the full the deceits and stratagems of the human being. This tie, which we liked so much, thinking it the kind of thing that would add a certain dash and zip to our bearing, was eminently a metropolitan-looking kind of scarf. No one would think to look at it that it had been bought in Gloversville. And we said to ourself that if we went quietly back to the hotel and slipped unobtrusively into the washroom and put on that tie, no one ...
— Plum Pudding - Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned • Christopher Morley
... bent to their oars; but at the same instant there was a sharp zip in the air and a hard clear sound like a stone striking a wall. Baddlesmere clapped his hand to his head, groaned and fell forward out of the boat, leaving a swirl of blood upon the surface. A moment later the same fierce hiss ended in a loud wooden crash, and a short, thick crossbow-bolt ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle
... heavy cross-bow quarrel stuck quivering in the boards. At the same instant the man stumbled forward upon his knees, and lay lifeless upon the deck, a blood-stained feather jutting out from his back. As Alleyne stooped to raise him, the air seemed to be alive with the sharp zip-zip of the bolts, and he could hear them pattering on the deck like ...
— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle
... and "List of Illustrations" have been moved before the preface and acknowledgements. There are numerous nested quotes. Illustrations have been included in the zip file. Captions and references to illustrations are included. The index is not included. GUTCHECK.exe was run several times, but every footnote number ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda


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