- a sudden, brief hissing sound, as of a bullet.
- energy; vim; vigor: Wow, you've got zip today—too much coffee this morning?
- to move with a zipping sound.
- to act or move with speed or energy: I'll just zip upstairs.
- to convey with speed and energy: I'll zip you downtown on my motorcycle.
- to add vitality or zest to (usually followed by up): A little garlic zips up a salad.
- to fasten or unfasten with a zipper: Zip your jacket.Zip open the traveling case.
- to enclose or free by doing up or undoing a zipper: Zip this money into your wallet. Zip me out of my dress.
- to compress (a file) in archive format, so it requires less memory to save and store it.
- to become fastened or unfastened by means of a zipper: a handy purse that zips shut.
- to do up or undo a zipper.
- utilizing or having a zipper: a coat with a zip front.
- of or relating to a method of file compression: a zip file.
- zero or nothing: The score of last night's hockey game was 4–zip.
- (in sports) to defeat by keeping an opponent from scoring: The home team was zipped again yesterday.
- a floppy disk form of storage for computer data with a capacity of 100–750 MB, used primarily in the 1990s: a Zip drive;a Zip disk.
- a fastening device operating by means of two parallel rows of metal or plastic teeth on either side of a closure that are interlocked by a sliding tab
- having or equipped with such a device
- a short sharp whizzing sound, as of a passing bullet
- energy; vigour; vitality
- nothing
- nil
- to fasten (clothing, a bag, etc) with a zip
- to move with a zip
- to hurry; rush
- to compress (a file) in order to reduce the amount of memory required to store it or to make sending it electronically quicker
- an electric water heater
