1 a zip on a piece of clothing, a bag etcSynonyms and related words Accessories used to fasten and secure clothes:belt, braces, buckle... Explore Thesaurus From our crowdsource [..]

1925, probably an agent noun from zip (v.1). The trademark taken out on the name that year applied to a boot with zippers, not to the "lightning fastener" itself, which was so called by 1927 [..]

A clothing fastener consisting of two tracks of metal or plastic teeth that interlock via a central pulley.

another word for zip-fastener

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Closure device for clothing and accessories which includes interlocking "teeth" that open and close by coming together/interlocking when engaged by pulling up or down a zipper pull.

type of fastening that has two rows of metal or plastic teeth that are joined and unjoined by moving a zipper pull up and down. Also known as zip.

A bit of music or sound effect to signal a local radio or TV station to interrupt for identification, a commercial, or other break. zoom:

(n) a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab(v) close with a zipper

Separable fasteners of the slide-controlled type.

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Acknowledge radio transmissions with two clicks of the mike button.

Acknowledge radio transmissions with two clicks of the mike button.

(chiefly,US|Australia) A zip fastener. A pressure-sensitive plastic closure. (biochemistry) leucine zipper

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When all or most of the ill-placed protection comes away from the face of the climb by the leader when taking a fall. Usually results in a crater. [Louis Joyce]