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zipper

[ zip-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Also called slide fastener. a device used for fastening clothing, valises, etc., consisting of two toothed tracks or spiral metal or plastic coils, each bordering one of two edges to be joined, and a piece that either interlocks or separates them when pulled.
a person or thing that zips. zip.
a rubber and fabric boot or overshoe fastened up the leg by a zipper.
a large illuminated display of news bulletins or advertisements that rapidly and continously flash by on an upper part of a building.

zipper

/ ˈzɪpə /

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 Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)zip

Origin of zipper¹

1920–25, Americanism; formerly a trademark; zip ¹, -er ¹

They have two front welt pockets, two back welt pockets, two hook closures at the waist, and a zipper fly.

Even stranded in a desert, Spears manages to stay sexy and classy (okay, minus the easy-access zipper).

When he went to prison, he had a couple of tattoos, he says—a star, a zipper around his wrist.

Unfortunately, I was wearing one of their dresses today, but at the last minute the zipper broke!

Just as Strauss-Kahn critics joked that his zipper could be his undoing, Sarkozy cynics bet on a baby.

He was portly, gray-haired, arrogant-faced; he wore a short black jacket with a jewelled zipper-pull, and striped trousers.

Did he normally wear a zipper jacket of the character shown on that exhibit?

As soon as he fastened the last zipper his companion jammed one of the domed helmets on his head.

Oh, when he came back he had the zipper satchel and the clothes on the hanger, is that right?

That little zipper satchel bag and some clothes on a hanger.

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