Meaning

8 senses
  1. (Australia, US)A zip fastener.

    He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.

  2. A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.

  3. A leucine zipper.

  4. (slang)A scar on a person's body.

  5. (US, dated, slang)An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.

  6. A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.

  7. A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).

  8. A zipline.

More definitions
  • a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab

Examples

47 sentences
  1. This zipper doesn't zip smoothly.

    Ця застібка-блискавка не застібається плавно.

    deDieser Reißverschluss hakt.

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  2. Your zipper's open.

    У тебе розстебнута ширінька!

    ruУ тебя молния расстегнута.

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  3. The zipper is stuck.

    Блискавка застрягла.

    ruМолния застряла.

    deDer Reißverschluss steckt fest.

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  4. Your zipper is open.

    У тебе розстебнута ширінька!

    ruУ тебя молния расстегнута.

    deDein Reißverschluss ist offen.

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  5. Do you know how to fix a stuck zipper?

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Origin

1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of

1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.

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Forms

plural: zippers
Singularzipper
Pluralzippers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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