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How to pronounce zippo in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip
Type of relative quantity
Has types bugger all, fanny adams, fuck all, nihil, sweet fanny adams

Examples of zippo

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No shortstops to speak of, no catchers after Anderson, zippo on the middle infield.
From the stltoday.com
I have zippo in common with them in terms of what I do on an everyday basis.
From the healthland.time.com
So in four other games Dreessen saw less than two targets and in one he got el zippo.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Zippo patented a new rib for its insert not long ago, and cut new teeth on its strike wheel.
From the online.wsj.com
Eskendereya was a good second, but Trippo had zippo when it counted.
From the timesunion.com
Zippo Manufacturing Co. in northwestern Pennsylvania has produced its 500 millionth lighter.
From the dailyherald.com
Without the bailout, GMAC would have gone broke, and the old holders'stake would have been worth zippo.
From the washingtonpost.com
I flipped my zippo and burned the joint to the ground.
From the guardian.co.uk
Zippo isn't eager to let buyers know how they've been had.
From the online.wsj.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"
  • A Zippo lighter is a refillable, metal lighter manufactured by Zippo Manufacturing Company of Bradford, Pennsylvania, U.S. "The Buyable Past," American Heritage, February/March 2006. ...
  • None whatsoever
  • Brand name of a type of cigarette lighter carried by many U.S. GIs in Vietnam, frequently engraved.
  • Flamethrower; also refers to the popular cigarette lighter of that brandname
  • Absence, ame qui vive, cipher, goose egg, naught, nichts, nix, nixie, no one, nobody, none, not a soul, nothing, nought, nul, null, unsubstantiality, void, zero, zilch, zip.
  • US model Cigarette lighter
  • Lighter (brand name)