mod. lively; active. : This is a real zippy number.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Nissan's zippy electric car should generate lots of buyers.
Other apps were noticeably zippy with loading as well.
It consumes no gas, releases zero-emissions from its tailpipe, and has lots of high torque for a zippy pick-up on the road.
Darters are zippy little fish that swim along the bottom of streams or lake shallows in short bursts.
Shallots, garlic and chiles as well as vegetables can give last night's stuffing a zippy makeover.
Loading up our precious movie and music libraries was easy enough courtesy of the unit's zippy write speeds.
Vans, the sneaker maker, cozies up to teens by building zippy skateboard parks.
Crappy low-light performance only partially forgiven by the camera's zippy flash.
Battery-powered cars are zippy and responsive, and nearly silent without the rattle and roar of pistons.
The graphic shows seven bottles squeezed into the quart zippy.