zip

Noun

• a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab

• forceful exertion
  • he plays tennis with great energy
    
  • he's full of zip
    

• a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail

• 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
    

Verb

• move very fast
  • The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed
    

• close with a zipper
  • Zip up your jacket--it's cold
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  slide fastener , zipper , zip fastener , energy , vigor , vigour , ZIP code , ZIP , postcode , postal code , travel rapidly , speed , hurry , zip up