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The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
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Energy; vigor; vim.informal
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A zip fastener.CommonwealthIrelandUK
- Catrin: What sort of doctor wears a suit? My doctor wears a fleece. Can see his nasty little chest hairs poking through the zip…
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Zero; nothing.slang
- I know zip about economics.
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A trip on a zipline.
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A zip file.informal
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Synonym of convolution (“a type of mapping function”).
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Synonym of zip zap zop
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An ounce of marijuana.slang
zip
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Imitative of high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.onomatopoeic
- `Zip!' Just like that, an exquisitely shaped fragment of a flashing rainbow in flight flits across in front of us[.]
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To close with a zip fastener.transitive
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To close as if with a zip fastener.figurativelytransitive
- Zip your lip!
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To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.transitive
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To subject to the convolution mapping function.transitive
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To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.intransitive
- The bullet zipped through the air.
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To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).colloquialintransitive
- Zip down to the shops for some milk.
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To make (something) move quicklytransitive
- 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.
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To travel on a zipline.
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To offer a list of alternately male and female candidates in an attempt to address the shortage of women.UK
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Ellipsis of zip code.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis