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Zip is defined as to move quickly, especially with a hissing sound.

(verb)

An example of zip is for a wind to quickly breeze through an area.

The definition of zip is a quick, hissing sound, is slang for zero, or is energy.

(noun)

  1. An example of a zip is the sound of cars quickly passing by on a freeway.
  2. An example of a zip is the score ten to zip.
  3. An example of a zip is the energy level of an eighty-year old man who is running a marathon; he has a lot of zip.

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See zip in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. a short, sharp hissing or whizzing sound, as of a passing bullet
  2. Informal energy; vigor; vim
  3. Chiefly Brit. zipper
    also zip-fastener
  4. Slang nothing; zero: the player was zip-for-12 at the line
  5. Informal a zip code number

Origin: echoic

intransitive verb zipped, zipping

  1. to make, or move with, a zip
  2. Informal to act or move with speed or energy
  3. to become fastened or unfastened by means of a zipper

transitive verb

to fasten or unfasten with a zipper

See zip in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A brief sharp hissing sound.
  2. Energy; vim.
  3. A zipper.
  4. Slang Nothing; nil; zero: received zip for money after doing the job for them.
verb zipped zipped, zip·ping, zips
verb, intransitive
  1. a. To move with a sharp hissing sound.
    b. To move or act with a speed that suggests such a sound: The cars zipped by endlessly.
  2. To act or proceed swiftly and energetically: zipped through her homework.
  3. To become fastened or unfastened by a zipper.
verb, transitive
  1. To give speed and force to.
  2. To impart life or zest to.
  3. To fasten or unfasten with a zipper.

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Origin: Imitative

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