zipper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: 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.
Base: zip
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: zippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zippers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: zippering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: zippered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: zippered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A zip fastener.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
US
examples: He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.
gloss: A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
pos: noun
gloss: A leucine zipper.
pos: noun
gloss: A scar on a person's body.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I also competed in track and field at Idaho, and it's all because of putting the shot that I've got my long scar, my zipper, down the back of my neck.
Making the transition from high school to college teams, for instance, he could not believe the scars his new players were sporting. "So many athletes had zippers down the side of their knee, or knees; they thought nothing of it and called this or that a Band-Aid operation. […]
gloss: An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
examples: […] the usual gap between the time the last strike of the day departed and the first night hecklers arrived was closed with "zippers" — night fighters who, using day fighter tactics, proceeded to the target in daylight in time to relieve the last day blanket patrol.
They would handle all the night combat air patrols, the night hecklers who would go over the enemy airfields, and we formed a new little gimmick called "zippers" to help close that gap between the time the daylight strikes left the target and darkness.
gloss: A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
pos: noun
gloss: A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
pos: noun
gloss: A zipline.
pos: noun
examples: Skills acquired include learning the "Flea Hop" and the "Tarzan Swing" as well as "Riding the Zipper" (sliding 400 feet on a cable between two mountain peaks), canoeing in white-water rapids, bushwacking and learning to "rappel" hundreds of feet down sheer rock cliffs on a rope.
gloss: To close a zipper.
pos: verb
examples: He zippered his sweater against the cold.
gloss: To put a zipper on an article.
pos: verb
examples: These fall jackets are zippered.
gloss: To act in a manner similar to a zipper.
pos: verb
examples: If more drivers knew how to zipper, the accident would not have disrupted traffic so much.
gloss: To act in a manner similar to a zipper.
pos: verb
Synonyms: slide fastener
zip
zip fastener
Derived words: leucine zipper
zipper lane
zipper machine
zipper merge
zipper sex
zipper spider
zippery
zipper down
zipper up
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