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Zipper

//ˈzɪpɚ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A zip fastener. Australia, US

    "He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket."

  2. 2
    a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab wordnet
  3. 3
    A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
  4. 4
    A leucine zipper.
  5. 5
    A scar on a person's body. slang

    "I also competed in track and field at Idaho, and it's all because of putting the shot that I've got my long scar, my zipper, down the back of my neck."

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  1. 6
    An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk. US, dated, slang

    "[…] the usual gap between the time the last strike of the day departed and the first night hecklers arrived was closed with "zippers" — night fighters who, using day fighter tactics, proceeded to the target in daylight in time to relieve the last day blanket patrol."

  2. 7
    A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
  3. 8
    A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
  4. 9
    A zipline.

    "Skills acquired include learning the "Flea Hop" and the "Tarzan Swing" as well as "Riding the Zipper" (sliding 400 feet on a cable between two mountain peaks), canoeing in white-water rapids, bushwacking and learning to "rappel" hundreds of feet down sheer rock cliffs on a rope."

Verb
  1. 1
    To close a zipper.

    "He zippered his sweater against the cold."

  2. 2
    close with a zipper wordnet
  3. 3
    To put a zipper on an article.

    "These fall jackets are zippered."

  4. 4
    To act in a manner similar to a zipper.; To act in a manner similar to a zipper closing; to interleave.

    "If more drivers knew how to zipper, the accident would not have disrupted traffic so much."

  5. 5
    To act in a manner similar to a zipper.; To unzipper.

Etymology

Etymology 1

1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.

Etymology 2

1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.

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