zipper
/ˈzɪpɚ/ · noun
Meaning
- A zip fastener.
- A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
- A leucine zipper.
- A scar on a person's body.
- An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.
- A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
- A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
- A zipline.
- To close a zipper.
- To put a zipper on an article.
- To act in a manner similar to a zipper.
- To act in a manner similar to a zipper closing; to interleave.
- To unzipper.
Etymology / origin
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.
Related words
Descendant words
- ဇစ်(Burmese) (bor)
- siper(Cebuano) (bor)
- Zipp(German) (bor)
- Zippverschluss(German) (bor)
- 지퍼(Korean) (bor)
- Zipper(Plautdietsch) (bor)
- zíper(Portuguese) (bor)
- зиппер(Russian) (bor)
- síper(Spanish) (bor)
- zíper(Spanish) (bor)
- ซิป(Thai) (bor)
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