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How to pronounce zip in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper
Type of holdfast, fastening, fixing, fastener
Type Words
Synonyms hurry, speed, travel rapidly
Type of go, move, travel, locomote
Has types whizz along, whizz, zoom along, dart, fleet, flit, flutter, run, zoom


The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed.
Type Words
Synonyms energy, vigor, vigour
Type of forcefulness, strength, force
Has types strenuosity, athleticism
Derivation zippy


he's full of zip.
Type Words
Synonyms zip up, zipper
Type of fasten, secure, fix
Derivation zipper
Type Words
Synonyms aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zippo
Type of relative quantity
Has types bugger all, nihil, fanny adams, sweet fanny adams, fuck all
Type Words
Synonyms postal code, postcode, zip code
Type of code

Examples of zip

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Ouch. Jordan Zimmerman showed some zip at camp with 15 strikeouts in 23 innings.
From the sacbee.com
Meanwhile, lawsuits over the ZIP code issue are apparently just getting started.
From the abcnews.go.com
Gatorland expects to create 15-20 full-time and part-time jobs via the zip line.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The new Tree to Tree Adventures has zip lines that participants can slide along.
From the thenewstribune.com
When we head out, we zip quickly up a dirt trail, past hemlocks, ferns and logs.
From the washingtonpost.com
Not after watching my daughter zip through the home screen to her favorite apps.
From the online.wsj.com
Transfer filling to a pastry bag or a zip-top freezer bag with a corner snipped.
From the stltoday.com
Merge in turn is also known as zip merging, or one vehicle gives way to another.
From the halesowennews.co.uk
Ninety-nine percent of the injury records were successfully mapped to zip codes.
From the sciencedaily.com
More examples
  • Nothing: 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"
  • Zip up: close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold"
  • ZIP code: a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail
  • Travel rapidly: move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"
  • Energy: forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip"
  • Slide fastener: a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
  • u017Du00EDp is a village and municipality in the Rimavsku00E1 Sobota District of the Bansku00E1 Bystrica Region of Slovakia.
  • Zip was a Canadian discount airline headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, launched by Air Canada as a no-frills subsidiary in September 2002. It operated a fleet of 12 Boeing 737 aircraft, each painted in a bright, neon colour (blue, fuchsia, green and orange) with a single class of service. ...
  • The ZIP file format is a data compression and archive format. A ZIP file contains one or more files that have been compressed to reduce file size, or stored as-is. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms.