zip
n 1: 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" [syn: nothing,
nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
goose egg, naught, zero, zilch]
2: a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means
of a sliding tab [syn: slide fastener, zipper, zip-fastener]
v 1: close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold" [syn: zip
up, zipper] [ant: unzip]
2: move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck
speed" [syn: travel rapidly, speed, hurry]
[also: zipping, zipped]