zip

• enPR: zĭp, IPA^(key): /zɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Onomatopoeic.

zip (plural zips)

1. The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
2. (informal) Energy; vigor; vim.
3. (British, New Zealand, Australia) A zip fastener.
4. (slang) Zero; nothing.

   I know zip about economics.

5. A trip on a zipline.
6. (computing, informal) A zip file.
7. (programming) Synonym of convolution (“type of mapping function”)
8. (slang) An ounce of marijuana.

• (sound): whizz, zing
• (fastener): slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper (chiefly US)

zip

1. (onomatopoeia) Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
   • 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 35:

     `Zip!' Just like that, an exquisitely shaped fragment of a flashing rainbow in flight flits across in front of us[.]

• whee, whizz, zing

zip (third-person singular simple present zips, present participle zipping, simple past and past participle zipped)

1. (transitive) To close with a zip fastener.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To close as if with a zip fastener.

   zip one's lip

3. (transitive, computing) To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
4. (transitive, programming) To subject to the convolution mapping function.
5. (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.

   The bullet zipped through the air.

6. (intransitive, colloquial, followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).

   Zip down to the shops for some milk.

   • 2022 October 24, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty”, in The New York Times‎:

     Despite writing that can be confusing — we are not told, for example, how Oishi’s group of 56 ronin ended up just 47, or maybe a supertitle zipped by too quickly — the story moves at a steady clip. And Dachs’s decision to have women play some of the male roles, most prominently Kira, is very effective.

7. (transitive) To make (something) move quickly
   • 2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Tottenham also initially struggled to create genuine goal-scoring opportunities, with Bale, Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart zipping passes around to little effect.

8. To travel on a zipline.

• (close with a zip fastener): zip up

zip (plural zips)

1. Ellipsis of zip code.

• IPA^(key): /zip/

zip

1. zipper

• Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

zip m (plural zips)

1. (computing) zip