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Zip

noun

A quantity of no importance. Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zippo. "Reduced to nil all the work we had done" , "We racked up a pathetic goose egg" , "It was all for naught" , "I didn't hear zilch about it"

A code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail. Synonyms: postal code, postcode, ZIP code.

Forceful exertion. Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour. "He's full of zip"

A fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab. Synonyms: slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper.

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"Zip" Quotes from Famous Books

... reports, and congratulated himself on the realistic qualities of his little drama. Then suddenly his hat went spinning from his head. At the same instant a bullet ploughed through the leather on his pommel. Zip! zip! went other bullets past his ears. The boys of Triangle X outfit were beginning to ...

— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White

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