zip
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(noun) a device for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab |
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Synonyms: slide fastener, zip-fastener, zipper |
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Related Words: fastener, fastening, holdfast |
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| 2. |
(verb) close with a zipper |
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Synonyms: zip up, zipper |
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Related Words: fasten, fix, secure |
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| 3. |
(verb) move very fast |
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Synonyms: hurry, speed, travel rapidly |
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Related Words: dart, fleet, flit, flutter, go, locomote, move, run, travel, whizz, whizz along, zoom, zoom along |
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(noun) a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "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" |
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Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, zero, zilch |
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Related Words: bugger all, fuck all, nihil, nil, relative quantity |
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